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overbroaden

overbroaden verb: to make too broad.

Verb

overbroaden (third-person singular simple present overbroadens, present participle overbroadening, simple past and past participle overbroadened)

  1. (transitive) To make too broad.

Forms of overbroaden

third-person singular presentoverbroadens
present participleoverbroadening
past participleoverbroadened
pastoverbroadened

Origin of overbroaden

From over- + broaden.

Questions about overbroaden

What does overbroaden mean?
Overbroaden means to make too broad.
What part of speech is overbroaden?
Overbroaden is a verb.
What is the past tense of overbroaden?
The past tense of overbroaden is overbroadened.

Words near overbroaden in the dictionary

  1. overbrimmed
  2. overbrimming
  3. overbrimmingly
  4. overbrims
  5. overbroad
  6. overbroaden
  7. overbroadened
  8. overbroadening
  9. overbroadens
  10. overbroadly
  11. overbroadness

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