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overcommunicate

overcommunicate verb: to communicate too much.

Verb

overcommunicate (third-person singular simple present overcommunicates, present participle overcommunicating, simple past and past participle overcommunicated)

  1. To communicate too much.
    • So I think I’ve learned to overcommunicate in a way that I never did before., Adam Bryant, quoting Deborah Dunsire, “Stepping Out of the Sandbox”, in New York Times
    • “You have to overcommunicate to an incredible degree,” Dr. Priest said, “because we still get questions on things that I think, ‘This was well-known 18 months ago.’2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting David Priest, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of overcommunicate

third-person singular presentovercommunicates
present participleovercommunicating
past participleovercommunicated
pastovercommunicated

Origin of overcommunicate

From over- + communicate.

Questions about overcommunicate

What does overcommunicate mean?
Overcommunicate means to communicate too much.
What part of speech is overcommunicate?
Overcommunicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcommunicate?
The past tense of overcommunicate is overcommunicated.

Words near overcommunicate in the dictionary

  1. overcommitted
  2. overcommitter
  3. overcommitters
  4. overcommitting
  5. overcommon
  6. overcommunicate
  7. overcommunicated
  8. overcommunicates
  9. overcommunicating
  10. overcommunication
  11. overcompaction

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