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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overruff.

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Examples

  • At one table East overruffed with the jack and led the ace and another heart.

    Bridge 2010

  • Declarer won and ruffed a spade, but West overruffed with the ten for down one.

    Bridge 2010

  • South next took the ace of spades and ruffed a spade, but East unkindly overruffed with the queen and led a trump.

    Bridge 2010

  • Had West overruffed there would have been no further hope for the defence, but Belladonna calmly discarded a spade.

    The legendary Giorgio Belladonna 2010

  • East overtook with the king and led the ace, and when South ruffed, West overruffed and shifted to a spade: three, queen, king.

    Bridge 2010

  • Whichever king he discarded, the nine in that suit would be master and he would have to throw on it his other king, or else ruff and be overruffed.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • Three times, when clubs were led from dummy, the Hog overruffed the Professor.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • Three times, when clubs were led from dummy, the Hog overruffed the Professor.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • The Chimp duly overruffed the ੥ 9 with the queen and, before continuing, paused to study the vibrations round the table.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

  • In desperation, Karapet ruffed a club with his ੥ Q, but H.H. overruffed, returned to dummy by trumping his last diamond and played another club, throwing on it his ♠ 4.

    VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979

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