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overaffect

overaffect verb: to have too great an effect on.

Verb

overaffect (third-person singular simple present overaffects, present participle overaffecting, simple past and past participle overaffected)

  1. (transitive) To have too great an effect on.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To care for unduly or excessively.
    • if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
    • We forfeit many favours, by overaffecting them.1649-1650, John Trapp, A clavis to the Bible

Forms of overaffect

third-person singular presentoveraffects
present participleoveraffecting
past participleoveraffected
pastoveraffected

Origin of overaffect

From over- + affect.

Questions about overaffect

What does overaffect mean?
Overaffect means to have too great an effect on.
What part of speech is overaffect?
Overaffect is a verb.
What is the past tense of overaffect?
The past tense of overaffect is overaffected.

Words near overaffect in the dictionary

  1. overaerate
  2. overaerated
  3. overaerates
  4. overaerating
  5. overaeration
  6. overaffect
  7. overaffected
  8. overaffecting
  9. overaffects
  10. overage
  11. overaged

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