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overtaught

overtaught is the simple past and past participle of overteach.

Meaning of overteach

Verb

overteach (third-person singular simple present overteaches, present participle overteaching, simple past and past participle overtaught)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To teach too much.
    • Geography is overtaught in my son's primary school.

Questions about overtaught

What is overtaught the simple past and past participle of?
Overtaught is the simple past and past participle of overteach.

Words near overtaught in the dictionary

  1. overtask
  2. overtasked
  3. overtasking
  4. overtasks
  5. overtattooed
  6. overtaught
  7. overtaut
  8. overtautness
  9. overtax
  10. overtaxation
  11. overtaxations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtaught (page history and authors); overteach (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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