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diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index 804311ff..dcb81ce5 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@ For short names, there are variants
 and
 .No \en( Ns Ar cc .
 .Ss \eo\(aq Ns Ar string Ns \(aq
-Overstrike, that is, write all the characters contained in the
+Overstrike, writing all the characters contained in the
 .Ar string
 to the same output position.
 In terminal and HTML output modes,