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overaccenting

overaccenting is the present participle and gerund of overaccent.

Meaning of overaccent

Verb

overaccent (third-person singular simple present overaccents, present participle overaccenting, simple past and past participle overaccented)

  1. (transitive) To accent too much.

Questions about overaccenting

What is overaccenting the present participle and gerund of?
Overaccenting is the present participle and gerund of overaccent.

Words near overaccenting in the dictionary

  1. overaccelerates
  2. overaccelerating
  3. overacceleration
  4. overaccent
  5. overaccented
  6. overaccenting
  7. overaccents
  8. overaccentuate
  9. overaccentuated
  10. overaccentuates
  11. overaccentuating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overaccenting (page history and authors); overaccent (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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