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overcontrolling

overcontrolling is the present participle and gerund of overcontrol.

Meaning of overcontrol

Verb

overcontrol (third-person singular simple present overcontrols, present participle overcontrolling, simple past and past participle overcontrolled)

  1. (transitive) To control to too great a degree.
    • She’s not fancy or overcontrolled: she sounds relaxed but alert, and a slight nasal flatness in her voice humanizes her, makes her touch the ground.2007 January 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times

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Adjective

overcontrolling (comparative more overcontrolling, superlative most overcontrolling)

  1. Excessively controlling.

Forms of overcontrolling

comparativemore overcontrolling
superlativemost overcontrolling

Questions about overcontrolling

What does overcontrolling mean?
Overcontrolling means excessively controlling.
What is overcontrolling the present participle and gerund of?
Overcontrolling is the present participle and gerund of overcontrol.
What part of speech is overcontrolling?
Overcontrolling is an adjective.

Words near overcontrolling in the dictionary

  1. overcontributions
  2. overcontrol
  3. overcontrolled
  4. overcontroller
  5. overcontrollers
  6. overcontrolling
  7. overcontrols
  8. overconvenient
  9. overconvergence
  10. overconvergent
  11. overconvict

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcontrolling (page history and authors); overcontrol (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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