overstrike

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ strike.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/ (noun)
• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/ (verb)

Verb

overstrike (third-person singular simple present overstrikes, present participle overstriking, simple past overstruck, past participle overstruck or (rare) overstricken)

1. (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking. [16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.

2. (transitive) To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.). [from 20th c.]
3. (transitive) To strike (something) too hard. [from 20th c.]

Noun

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

1. (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once. [from 20th c.]
2. (typography) The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł. [from 20th c.]
3. (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)

Anagrams

• strikeover