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overdevelop en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + develop.

Meanings

  1. 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:
  2. To develop a photographic film for too long

Forms

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overdeveloping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overdeveloped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overdeveloped Tense=Past lexicographic
overdevelops Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

underdevelop

Deriveds

overdevelopment

Translations (2)

hu túlhív (to develop a photographic film for too long) · hu túlfejleszt (to develop to an excessive degree)