overfire (English, verb)
expansion: overfire (third-person singular simple present overfires, present participle overfiring, simple past and past participle overfired)
Senses:
glosses: To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.
tags: transitive
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
tags: transitive
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of a cell or group of cells: to fire excessively.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: overfires
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overfiring
tags: participle
present
form: overfired
tags: participle
past
form: overfired
tags: past
form: over-fire
tags: alternative