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overeducate en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + educate.

Meanings

1. To educate too much.
   • “You know, one thing I find particularly unpleasant about you Americans is your tendency to overeducate your women.” 2004, Patricia Lewin, Out of Reach, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 177:
   • You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend. 1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12:
   • They are drilled and attend school on the premises, being taught by a capable mistress who understands their disabilities, and does not overeducate them, and yet tries to prevent their minds becoming fallow. 1921, J. Anderson Smith, “The Foreign Field”, in Mother and Child, volume 2, page 373:

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