Usually means: Excessive cylinder bore relative displacement.
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  1. overbore: Merriam-Webster
  2. overbore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overbore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overbore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overbore: Vocabulary.com
  6. overbore: Wordnik
  7. overbore: Wiktionary
  8. overbore: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. overbore: Dictionary.com
  10. Overbore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. overbore: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See overbear as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overbore)

adjective:  (firearms) Such that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.
verb:  (firearms, transitive) To modify so that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.

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