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overenunciate en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + enunciate.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To enunciate too strongly.
    • He’s always been far more interesting rhythmically than lyrically, but here his tendency to overenunciate, an accommodation that makes him more palatable to foreign ears, holds him back. 2009 August 20, Jon Caramanica, “In a Time of Daggers, a Reggae Artist Shows a Benign Side”, in New York Times:

Forms

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overenunciated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overenunciated Tense=Past lexicographic
overenunciating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overenunciates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

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