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overproliferate

overproliferate verb: to proliferate excessively.

Verb

overproliferate (third-person singular simple present overproliferates, present participle overproliferating, simple past and past participle overproliferated)

  1. To proliferate excessively.
    • The Ras and Notch-driven epithelial tumors develop in the eye-antennal imaginal disc which is not thought to contain epithelial stem cells, however, the eye disc does contain progenitor cells that can also overproliferate in response to excessive STAT activity.2015 July 25, “BTB-Zinc Finger Oncogenes Are Required for Ras and Notch-Driven Tumorigenesis in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of overproliferate

third-person singular presentoverproliferates
present participleoverproliferating
past participleoverproliferated
pastoverproliferated

Origin of overproliferate

From over- + proliferate.

Questions about overproliferate

What does overproliferate mean?
Overproliferate means to proliferate excessively.
What part of speech is overproliferate?
Overproliferate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overproliferate?
The past tense of overproliferate is overproliferated.

Words near overproliferate in the dictionary

  1. overprogrammes
  2. overprogramming
  3. overprograms
  4. overprojection
  5. overprojections
  6. overproliferate
  7. overproliferated
  8. overproliferates
  9. overproliferating
  10. overproliferation
  11. overproliferative

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