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overpoliced

overpoliced adjective: excessively policed. Also the simple past and past participle of overpolice.

Adjective

overpoliced (comparative more overpoliced, superlative most overpoliced)

  1. Excessively policed.
    • For things like drugs and nonviolent offenses, they’re being hideously overpoliced and overincarcerated.2015 August 12, Michael Kimmelman, “David Simon and Cory Booker on ‘Show Me a Hero’ and the Future of Cities”, in New York Times

Also used as

overpoliced is also the simple past and past participle of overpolice.

Forms of overpoliced

comparativemore overpoliced
superlativemost overpoliced

Origin of overpoliced

From over- + policed.

Questions about overpoliced

What does overpoliced mean?
Overpoliced means excessively policed.
What part of speech is overpoliced?
Overpoliced is an adjective.

Words near overpoliced in the dictionary

  1. overpole
  2. overpoled
  3. overpolemical
  4. overpoles
  5. overpolice
  6. overpoliced
  7. overpolices
  8. overpolicing
  9. overpoling
  10. overpolish
  11. overpolished

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