overgoverns
overgoverns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overgovern.
Meaning of overgovern
Verb
overgovern (third-person singular simple present overgoverns, present participle overgoverning, simple past and past participle overgoverned)
- To govern with too much rigidity or precision.
- In Europe, he says, we over-govern. The subjects of European governments would seem, according to his notion, to be brought into this world only to be licked and taxed.1833, Arthur Brooke Faulkner, Visit to Germany and the Low Countries in the Years 1829, 30, and 31
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- What is overgoverns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Overgoverns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overgovern.
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