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overtout

overtout verb: to tout to excess.

Verb

overtout (third-person singular simple present overtouts, present participle overtouting, simple past and past participle overtouted)

  1. To tout to excess
    • The River's Edge, despite its strong subject, was confused and conspicuously overtouted.1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of overtout

third-person singular presentovertouts
present participleovertouting
past participleovertouted
pastovertouted

Origin of overtout

From over- + tout.

Questions about overtout

What does overtout mean?
Overtout means to tout to excess.
What part of speech is overtout?
Overtout is a verb.
What is the past tense of overtout?
The past tense of overtout is overtouted.

Words near overtout in the dictionary

  1. overtouring
  2. overtourism
  3. overtouristed
  4. overtouristic
  5. overtours
  6. overtout
  7. overtouted
  8. overtouting
  9. overtouts
  10. overtower
  11. overtowered

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