Word: overfermented
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: o
ver
fer
men
ted
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of overferment. To ferment for too long; allow or exhibit too much fermentation.
Morphemes:
Affix: over-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: excessively
Affix: ferment
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: fermentare
Language: la
Decoded: fermentare
Meaning: to leaven, ferment
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.