Home › Words › O › overclearoverclearoverclear means especially clear or comprehensible.EtymologyFrom over- + clear.adjEspecially clear or comprehensible.e.g.“The phrasing of the new law is not overclear to a layman.”verbTo make too clear, or translucent.e.g.“Unfortunately, this medium tends to overclear specimens, especially the less heavily chitinized species.” — 1946, Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa:To pass, without collision, by too great a distance; to go too far beyond.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).