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overfeature en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + feature.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To feature excessively.
   • I believe our educational system has overfeatured the quantitative phase of education in order that they might get students ready for college. 1941, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates..., page 2020:
   • Despite a tendency to overfeature himself in Inside Rochdale, Abramson was a good editor who generally tried to report the news fairly and in reasonable depth. 2011, Peter Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village, page 280:
   • When recently I told the editor of our leading city paper that I thought he overfeatured the late Pope's death and the coronation of his successor, he said, what I could not gainsay: […] 1939, Christian Advocate, volume 100, page 13:

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