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overconsuming

overconsuming is the present participle and gerund of overconsume.

Meaning of overconsume

Verb

overconsume (third-person singular simple present overconsumes, present participle overconsuming, simple past and past participle overconsumed)

  1. To consume too much.
    • I feel that Americans overborrow and overconsume.2007 December 20, “The Fed's Empty Gun”, in New York Times

Questions about overconsuming

What is overconsuming the present participle and gerund of?
Overconsuming is the present participle and gerund of overconsume.

Words near overconsuming in the dictionary

  1. overconsume
  2. overconsumed
  3. overconsumer
  4. overconsumers
  5. overconsumes
  6. overconsuming
  7. overconsumption
  8. overcontact
  9. overcontented
  10. overcontentment
  11. overcontextualization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overconsuming (page history and authors); overconsume (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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