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overmoderating

overmoderating is the present participle and gerund of overmoderate.

Meaning of overmoderate

Verb

overmoderate (third-person singular simple present overmoderates, present participle overmoderating, simple past and past participle overmoderated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To moderate excessively.
    • But as conservatives have claimed that social media companies are biased against them and overmoderate their political views, Republican lawmakers have increasingly pushed to modify the statute.2020 May 28, Maggie Haberman, Kate Conger, “Trump Prepares Order to Limit Social Media Companies’ Protections”, in The New York Times

Questions about overmoderating

What is overmoderating the present participle and gerund of?
Overmoderating is the present participle and gerund of overmoderate.

Words near overmoderating in the dictionary

  1. overmixing
  2. overmoded
  3. overmoderate
  4. overmoderated
  5. overmoderates
  6. overmoderating
  7. overmodern
  8. overmodernization
  9. overmodernize
  10. overmodernized
  11. overmodernizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overmoderating (page history and authors); overmoderate (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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