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overeducates

overeducates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overeducate.

Meaning of overeducate

Verb

overeducate (third-person singular simple present overeducates, present participle overeducating, simple past and past participle overeducated)

  1. To educate too much.
    • You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend.1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12

Forms of overeducates

alternative formover-educates

Questions about overeducates

What is overeducates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overeducates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overeducate.

Words near overeducates in the dictionary

  1. overedited
  2. overediting
  3. overedits
  4. overeducate
  5. overeducated
  6. overeducates
  7. overeducating
  8. overeducation
  9. overeffusive
  10. overeffusively
  11. overeffusiveness

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