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oversignified

oversignified is the simple past and past participle of oversignify.

Meaning of oversignify

Verb

oversignify (third-person singular simple present oversignifies, present participle oversignifying, simple past and past participle oversignified)

  1. To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
    • It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

Questions about oversignified

What is oversignified the simple past and past participle of?
Oversignified is the simple past and past participle of oversignify.

Words near oversignified in the dictionary

  1. oversignalling
  2. oversignals
  3. oversigned
  4. oversignification
  5. oversignifications
  6. oversignified
  7. oversignifies
  8. oversignify
  9. oversignifying
  10. oversilent
  11. oversilver

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