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overorganize

overorganize verb: to organize in too much detail.

Verb

overorganize (third-person singular simple present overorganizes, present participle overorganizing, simple past and past participle overorganized)

  1. (transitive) To organize in too much detail.
  2. (intransitive) To become too politically or socially cohesive and structured.
    • As the decade wore on, the sexy/anarchist "attitude" wore down […] and the mail became dominated by gay press releases from organizations and gay businesses. Maybe we over-organized, and stifled the poetry.1989 December 24, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 10

Forms of overorganize

third-person singular presentoverorganizes
present participleoverorganizing
past participleoverorganized
pastoverorganized

Origin of overorganize

From over- + organize.

Questions about overorganize

What does overorganize mean?
Overorganize means to organize in too much detail.
What part of speech is overorganize?
Overorganize is a verb.
What is the past tense of overorganize?
The past tense of overorganize is overorganized.

Words near overorganize in the dictionary

  1. overordered
  2. overordering
  3. overorders
  4. overorganisation
  5. overorganization
  6. overorganize
  7. overorganized
  8. overorganizes
  9. overorganizing
  10. overornament
  11. overornamented

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