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overaddress

overaddress verb: to address to an excessive degree.

Verb

overaddress (third-person singular simple present overaddresses, present participle overaddressing, simple past and past participle overaddressed)

  1. (transitive) To address to an excessive degree.
    • Secondary problems have been overaddressed, but we should be focusing on the main issues.

Forms of overaddress

third-person singular presentoveraddresses
present participleoveraddressing
past participleoveraddressed
pastoveraddressed

Origin of overaddress

From over- + address.

Questions about overaddress

What does overaddress mean?
Overaddress means to address to an excessive degree.
What part of speech is overaddress?
Overaddress is a verb.
What is the past tense of overaddress?
The past tense of overaddress is overaddressed.

Words near overaddress in the dictionary

  1. overadapting
  2. overadapts
  3. overaddicted
  4. overaddiction
  5. overadditive
  6. overaddress
  7. overaddressed
  8. overaddresses
  9. overaddressing
  10. overadduction
  11. overadjectived

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