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overspecialized

overspecialized is the simple past and past participle of overspecialize.

Meaning of overspecialize

Verb

overspecialize (third-person singular simple present overspecializes, present participle overspecializing, simple past and past participle overspecialized)

  1. To specialize to an excessive degree.
    • The tendency to overspecialize is also noticeable in the county. Some farmers are growing fruit to the exclusion of all other crops; some carry the practice a step further and grow only peaches.1915, E. H. Anderson, “Niagara County: An Account of Its Agriculture and of Its Farm Bureau”, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of...

Questions about overspecialized

What is overspecialized the simple past and past participle of?
Overspecialized is the simple past and past participle of overspecialize.

Words near overspecialized in the dictionary

  1. overspecialises
  2. overspecialising
  3. overspecialization
  4. overspecializations
  5. overspecialize
  6. overspecialized
  7. overspecializes
  8. overspecializing
  9. overspecific
  10. overspecifically
  11. overspecification

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