overdevelop en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + develop.
Meanings
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To develop to an excessive degree
After all, most neighborhoods in Chicago, outside of overdeveloped Lincoln Park, welcome any kind of retail developments their commercial strips can get.
1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader:
- To develop a photographic film for too long
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overdeveloping | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overdeveloped | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overdeveloped | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overdevelops | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
hu túlhív (to develop a photographic film for too long) · hu túlfejleszt (to develop to an excessive degree)