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overpublicizing

overpublicizing is the present participle and gerund 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 overpublicizing

What is overpublicizing the present participle and gerund of?
Overpublicizing is the present participle and gerund of overpublicize.

Words near overpublicizing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overpublicizing (page history and authors); overpublicize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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