overconsolidate

present singular third person overconsolidates · participle present overconsolidating · participle past overconsolidated · past overconsolidated

1. To consolidate too much.

   Resist the temptation to overconsolidate—that is, avoid lumping lots of ideas under one subject.

   2009, Harvard Business Review, Executing Strategy, →ISBN, page 20

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   Often they will overconsolidate the recontoured surface, creating compacted soils unsuitable for seed beds.

   1987, Kenneth N. Weaver, Setting Priorities for Abandoned Mine Land Research, page 65

   It has also been hypothesized that compared to people who are vulnerable to stress, stress-resilient individuals are less likely to overconsolidate emotional memories and may have an enhanced ability to reorganize existing emotional memories and to extinguish traumatic memories (Wu et al., 2013).

   2017, Robert J. Ursano, Carol S. Fullerton, Lars Weisaeth, Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 71