overhandle

verb

over·han·dle ˌō-vər-ˈhan-dᵊl

overhandled; overhandling

transitive verb

: to handle (something) more than is necessary or desirable

overhandled the dough so that it softened too much

… overhandles the puck at least once in each game and costs his team a key goal.—

Elliott Pap

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Cooke describes ascendant females tormenting their underlings, obstructing access to water and food, and snatching their babies away only to overhandle and then neglect the infants. —

Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022