overmarch

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ march

Verb[edit]

overmarch (third-person singular simple present overmarches, present participle overmarching, simple past and past participle overmarched)

  1. (transitive) To cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
    • 1953, Bruce Catton, The army of the Potomac:
      They had been overmarched and underfed and they had been ruinously beaten by the Rebels. Someone would have to work on them before they would amount to much as fighting troops.