overfast

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ fast.

Adjective

overfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

  1. Too quick.

Adverb

overfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

  1. Too quickly.
    • 1914-1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
      MacDonald shook his head. “Man, you are surely travelling overfast,” said he. “I have heard no evidence yet that any stranger was ever in the house at all.”

Verb

overfast (third-person singular simple present overfasts, present participle overfasting, simple past and past participle overfasted)

  1. (intransitive) To refrain from food to an excessive degree.
    • 2023, Jamie Kreiner, The Wandering Mind
      […] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]
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