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overadapting

overadapting is the present participle and gerund 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 overadapting

What is overadapting the present participle and gerund of?
Overadapting is the present participle and gerund of overadapt.

Words near overadapting in the dictionary

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

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