overfeature

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verb

To feature excessively.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verboverfeature (third-person singular simple present overfeatures, present participle overfeaturing, simple past and past participle overfeatured)

present singular third person overfeatures · participle present overfeaturing · participle past overfeatured · past overfeatured

  1. transitiveTo feature excessively.

    I believe our educational system has overfeatured the quantitative phase of education in order that they might get students ready for college.

    1941, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates..., page 2020
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    When recently I told the editor of our leading city paper that I thought he overfeatured the late Pope's death and the coronation of his successor, he said, what I could not gainsay: […]

    1939, Christian Advocate, volume 100, page 13

    Despite a tendency to overfeature himself in Inside Rochdale, Abramson was a good editor who generally tried to report the news fairly and in reasonable depth.

    2011, Peter Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village, page 280

Origin

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