overnumber

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ number.

Verb

overnumber (third-person singular simple present overnumbers, present participle overnumbering, simple past and past participle overnumbered)

1. (transitive, archaic or non-native speakers' English) To outnumber.
   • 1900, United States, Annual Reports of the War Department, War Department, page 774:

     In the most acute cases they may greatly overnumber the white corpuscles and epithelial cells.