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overregularized

overregularized is the simple past and past participle of overregularize.

Meaning of overregularize

Verb

overregularize (third-person singular simple present overregularizes, present participle overregularizing, simple past and past participle overregularized)

  1. (intransitive) To apply (a rule of language) too widely.
    • A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".

Questions about overregularized

What is overregularized the simple past and past participle of?
Overregularized is the simple past and past participle of overregularize.

Words near overregularized in the dictionary

  1. overregular
  2. overregularity
  3. overregularization
  4. overregularizations
  5. overregularize
  6. overregularized
  7. overregularizes
  8. overregularizing
  9. overregulate
  10. overregulated
  11. overregulates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overregularized (page history and authors); overregularize (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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