Meanings
verboverpreach (third-person singular simple present overpreaches, present participle overpreaching, simple past and past participle overpreached)
present singular third person overpreaches · participle present overpreaching · participle past overpreached · past overpreached
- ambitransitiveTo preach excessively.
Galbraith once wrote, not without irony, that moralists tend to exaggerate the blessings of poverty and overpreach the dangers inherent in wealth.
2006, Denis Goulet, Development Ethics at Work: Explorations - 1960-2002, page 35
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