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Meaning of overreplacement | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“... liberal replacement or overreplacement with blood and plasma preoperatively and operatively has made obsolete the use of vasopressors, which in the past ...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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