overpublicize en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + publicize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To publicize excessively.
After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes.
2009 August 23, “A Richard Poirier Reader: The Beatles and Parody, Capote and Narcissism”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overpublicizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overpublicized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overpublicized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overpublicizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |