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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, the process which results in an overturned fold.
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The big problem my students have with soufflés is, first, overbeating the egg whites—it is hard to overheat them in a copper bowl—and then overfolding.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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The big problem my students have with soufflés is, first, overbeating the egg whites—it is hard to overheat them in a copper bowl—and then overfolding.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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The big problem my students have with soufflés is, first, overbeating the egg whites—it is hard to overheat them in a copper bowl—and then overfolding.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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He had burst through the half-troop guarding the upper end of the defile, had left them red and reeling to count their dead, and the overfolding hill-spurs swallowed him.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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His eyes were very small and nearly hidden by the overfolding wrinkles about them.
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It produces rapid global movement of continental platforms and rapid subduction, obduction, overfolding thin lithosphere platforms.
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It produces rapid global movement of continental platforms and rapid subduction, obduction, overfolding thin lithosphere platforms.
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