Meanings
verboverpublicize (third-person singular simple present overpublicizes, present participle overpublicizing, simple past and past participle overpublicized)
present singular third person overpublicizes · participle present overpublicizing · participle past overpublicized · past overpublicized
- transitiveTo publicize excessively.
After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes.
2009 August 23, “A Richard Poirier Reader: The Beatles and Parody, Capote and Narcissism”, in New York Times
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overpublicize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpublicize
MLA
“overpublicize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpublicize. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overpublicize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overpublicize.
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