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overpublicizes

overpublicizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overpublicize.

Meaning of overpublicize

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

Questions about overpublicizes

What is overpublicizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overpublicizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overpublicize.

Words near overpublicizes in the dictionary

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

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