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