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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something added by overprinting [syn: overprint, surprint] v
1: print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper [syn: overprint, print over]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Date: 1863 to print over with something additional II. noun Date: 1876 something added by or as if by overprinting; especially a printed marking added to a postage or revenue stamp especially to alter the original or to commemorate a special event

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) Information printed or stamped upon a map or chart, in addition to that originally printed, to show data of importance or special use.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 print further matter on (a surface already printed, esp. a postage stamp). 2 print (further matter) in this way. 3 Photog. print (a positive) darker than was intended. 4 (also absol.) print too many copies of (a work). --n. 1 the words etc. overprinted. 2 an overprinted postage stamp.

Moby Thesaurus

bring out, engrave, get out, hectograph, impress, imprint, issue, mimeograph, multigraph, print, proof, prove, publish, pull, pull a proof, put out, put to bed, put to press, reissue, reprint, run, run off, stamp, strike