overstore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To open more stores than the retail market needs.
verb
To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
verb
To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
noun
An instance of overstoring, a surplus.
Example Sentences
- "This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish."
- "even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh"
- "It merely results in storing up energy at a very rapid rate; you can overstore and then you feel the intoxication of it, but that is overcome by a reasonable use of the breathing exercise."
- "If the market cannot be counted on for supplies later in the season and information on crops and stocks is absent, those who are able will tend to overstore in their own households."
- "With improved protein diets, there seems to be biochemical message which tells the organisms to overstore essential amino acids and other brain chemicals."
- "Thus, a larger population of seeds is left in the ground to germinate, thereby exploiting the tendency of squirrels, jays, and other animals to overstore nuts by burying (planting) them when available."
Etymology
From over- + store.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over