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over-educate

over-educate is the alternative form of overeducate.

Meaning of overeducate

Verb

overeducate (third-person singular simple present overeducates, present participle overeducating, simple past and past participle overeducated)

  1. To educate too much.
    • 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

Forms of over-educate

third-person singular presentover-educates
present participleover-educating
past participleover-educated
pastover-educated

Questions about over-educate

What is over-educate the alternative form of?
Over-educate is the alternative form of overeducate.

Words near over-educate in the dictionary

  1. over-diversifies
  2. over-diversify
  3. over-diversifying
  4. over-dressed
  5. over-eat
  6. over-educate
  7. over-educated
  8. over-educates
  9. over-educating
  10. over-education
  11. over-egg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-educate (page history and authors); overeducate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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