Meanings
verboverorganize (third-person singular simple present overorganizes, present participle overorganizing, simple past and past participle overorganized)
present singular third person overorganizes · participle present overorganizing · participle past overorganized · past overorganized
- transitiveTo organize in too much detail.
- intransitiveTo become too politically or socially cohesive and structured.
As the decade wore on, the sexy/anarchist "attitude" wore down […] and the mail became dominated by gay press releases from organizations and gay businesses. Maybe we over-organized, and stifled the poetry.
1989 December 24, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 10
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