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overpromote

overpromote verb: to promote excessively.

Verb

overpromote (third-person singular simple present overpromotes, present participle overpromoting, simple past and past participle overpromoted)

  1. (transitive) To promote excessively.
    • NBC, never shy about exploiting a celebrity tragedy, overproduced and overpromoted her film in “Farrah’s Story,” but never made the public service point that, besides abstinence, the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually...2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher”, in New York Times

Forms of overpromote

third-person singular presentoverpromotes
present participleoverpromoting
past participleoverpromoted
pastoverpromoted

Origin of overpromote

From over- + promote.

Questions about overpromote

What does overpromote mean?
Overpromote means to promote excessively.
What part of speech is overpromote?
Overpromote is a verb.
What is the past tense of overpromote?
The past tense of overpromote is overpromoted.

Words near overpromote in the dictionary

  1. overpromised
  2. overpromiser
  3. overpromisers
  4. overpromises
  5. overpromising
  6. overpromote
  7. overpromoted
  8. overpromotes
  9. overpromoting
  10. overpromotion
  11. overprompt

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