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overadapted

overadapted is the simple past and past participle of overadapt.

Meaning of overadapt

Verb

overadapt (third-person singular simple present overadapts, present participle overadapting, simple past and past participle overadapted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To adapt excessively.
    • Apparently conscious of the need to achieve a good fit between Chaucer's text and extraneous materials, the scribe overadapted the poem to context by suppressing its generally springy first triplet, copying only those lines that refer to birdsong.1996, Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts, page 189

Questions about overadapted

What is overadapted the simple past and past participle of?
Overadapted is the simple past and past participle of overadapt.

Words near overadapted in the dictionary

  1. overacts
  2. overactuated
  3. overadapt
  4. overadaptation
  5. overadaptations
  6. overadapted
  7. overadapting
  8. overadapts
  9. overaddicted
  10. overaddiction
  11. overadditive

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