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Vinony

overfast

adverb

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From over- + fast.

  1. Too quick.

adv

Etymology: From over- + fast.

  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

Etymology: From over- + fast.

  1. To refrain from food to an excessive degree.

    “[…] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]”