overshakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overshake (三人称単数 現在形 overshakes, 現在分詞 overshaking, 過去形 overshook, 過去分詞 overshaken)

1. To shake too much.

   Always shake hands at a job interview, but try not to overshake.

2. (obsolete) To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
   • 1377, Chaucer, “v. 680”, in Parlement of Foules^[1]:

     Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast thes wintres wedres over-shake, And driven away the longe nyghtes blake!