Definitions

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  • transitive verb To search all over.

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  • verb To search all over.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ search

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Examples

  • The bottom line for Ohm is that just letting the police ramble around or "oversearch" hard drives will allow them to survey more private data owned by innocent citizens than was ever permitted by warrants back in the days of searching warehouses full of paper.

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2011

  • Baile advises patients to gather some information about their disease and its treatment before seeing the doctor, but not to "oversearch."

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

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