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overpublicize

overpublicize verb: to publicize excessively.

Verb

overpublicize (third-person singular simple present overpublicizes, present participle overpublicizing, simple past and past participle overpublicized)

  1. (transitive) To publicize excessively.
    • After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes.2009 August 23, “A Richard Poirier Reader: The Beatles and Parody, Capote and Narcissism”, in New York Times

Forms of overpublicize

third-person singular presentoverpublicizes
present participleoverpublicizing
past participleoverpublicized
pastoverpublicized

Origin of overpublicize

From over- + publicize.

Questions about overpublicize

What does overpublicize mean?
Overpublicize means to publicize excessively.
What part of speech is overpublicize?
Overpublicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of overpublicize?
The past tense of overpublicize is overpublicized.

Words near overpublicize in the dictionary

  1. overpsychologizes
  2. overpsychologizing
  3. overpublic
  4. overpublication
  5. overpublicity
  6. overpublicize
  7. overpublicized
  8. overpublicizes
  9. overpublicizing
  10. overpublish
  11. overpull

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