overgross
English
Etymology
Adjective
overgross (comparative more overgross, superlative most overgross)
- Excessively gross.
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- overgross opinions to enter into your learned head
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Verb
overgross (third-person singular simple present overgrosses, present participle overgrossing, simple past and past participle overgrossed)
- (aviation, transitive) To load (a plane) with too much weight, thereby impairing its ability to fly.
- 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 32:
- Not a problem. Not enough weight to overgross the plane.
- 2010, CloudDancer, Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles, Volume III: The Tragedies, →ISBN:
- Unalakleet was the only good fuel stop available as my outbound load from Kotzebue for that long leg was already far overgrossing my poor 145 h.p. Cessna 172.