overpromote

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verb

To promote excessively.

OriginEnglish promote ← Latin prōmōtus ← Proto-Italic *moweō →
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Meanings

verboverpromote (third-person singular simple present overpromotes, present participle overpromoting, simple past and past participle overpromoted)

present singular third person overpromotes · participle present overpromoting · participle past overpromoted · past overpromoted

  1. transitiveTo promote excessively.
    1 more example

    NBC, never shy about exploiting a celebrity tragedy, overproduced and overpromoted her film in “Farrah’s Story,” but never made the public service point that, besides abstinence, the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually acquired.

    2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  9. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  10. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  11. Proto-Italic*pro-
  12. Latinprō-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  15. Proto-Italic*moweō
  16. Latinmoveō
  17. Latinprōmoveō
  18. Latinprōmōtus
  19. Englishpromote
  20. Englishoverpromote

From over- + promote.

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APA

overpromote. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpromote

MLA

“overpromote.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpromote. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overpromote,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpromote.

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