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overproliferating

overproliferating is the present participle and gerund of overproliferate.

Meaning of overproliferate

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

Questions about overproliferating

What is overproliferating the present participle and gerund of?
Overproliferating is the present participle and gerund of overproliferate.

Words near overproliferating in the dictionary

  1. overprojection
  2. overprojections
  3. overproliferate
  4. overproliferated
  5. overproliferates
  6. overproliferating
  7. overproliferation
  8. overproliferative
  9. overprolific
  10. overprolix
  11. overprominence

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