overadapt

present singular third person overadapts · participle present overadapting · participle past overadapted · past overadapted

1. ambitransitiveTo adapt excessively.

   In some cases, there is the problem of wives choosing to overadapt or being asked to overadapt. Adapting that takes away individuality, personhood or self-worth is overadapting. Adapting that requires lockstep thinking is overadapting.

   2006, Gil and Dana Stieglitz, Becoming a Godly Wife, page 64

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   Apparently conscious of the need to achieve a good fit between Chaucer's text and extraneous materials, the scribe overadapted the poem to context by suppressing its generally springy first triplet, copying only those lines that refer to birdsong.

   1996, Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts, page 189