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overapologise

overapologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overapologize.

Meaning of overapologize

Verb

overapologize (third-person singular simple present overapologizes, present participle overapologizing, simple past and past participle overapologized)

  1. (intransitive) To apologize excessively.

Forms of overapologise

third-person singular presentoverapologises
present participleoverapologising
past participleoverapologised
pastoverapologised

Origin of overapologise

From over- + apologise.

Questions about overapologise

What is overapologise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Overapologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overapologize.

Words near overapologise in the dictionary

  1. overanxiety
  2. overanxious
  3. overanxiously
  4. overanxiousness
  5. overapologies
  6. overapologise
  7. overapologised
  8. overapologises
  9. overapologising
  10. overapologize
  11. overapologized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overapologise (page history and authors); overapologize (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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