Home › Words › O › overreplaceoverreplaceoverreplace · verb — to replace in excess.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom over- + replace.verbTo replace in excesse.g.“While it is a common error to overreplace blood losses and to give too great volumes of electrolyte solutions to elderly patients, it is just as common to give too little.” — 1963, John Ervin Jesseph, Henry Nelson Harkins, Geriatric Surgical Emergencies, →ISBN, page 200:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).