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overcommercialized

overcommercialized is the simple past and past participle of overcommercialize.

Meaning of overcommercialize

Verb

overcommercialize (third-person singular simple present overcommercializes, present participle overcommercializing, simple past and past participle overcommercialized)

  1. (transitive) To make excessively commercial.
    • It was unwieldy, included a fatal bombing at Centennial Olympic Park and is largely considered the most overcommercialized Olympics in the history of the modern Games.2007 July 15, “Chicago Gets Advice on How to Secure and Run a Successful Olympics”, in New York Times

Questions about overcommercialized

What is overcommercialized the simple past and past participle of?
Overcommercialized is the simple past and past participle of overcommercialize.

Words near overcommercialized in the dictionary

  1. overcommercialised
  2. overcommercialises
  3. overcommercialising
  4. overcommercialization
  5. overcommercialize
  6. overcommercialized
  7. overcommercializes
  8. overcommercializing
  9. overcommission
  10. overcommissioned
  11. overcommissioning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcommercialized (page history and authors); overcommercialize (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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