Meaning

1 senses

  1. To cultivate excessively.

More definitions
  • to exhaust by excessive cultivation

Origin

From over- + cultivate.

From over- + cultivate.

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Forms

overcultivates, overcultivating, overcultivated, overcultivated
Base formovercultivate · to overcultivate
3rd person singularovercultivates
Present participleovercultivating
Past simpleovercultivated
Past participleovercultivated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyovercultivate
he, she, itovercultivates

Past simpleLesson

all personsovercultivated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overcultivated
he, she, ithas overcultivated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overcultivate

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • to exhaust by excessive cultivation:overcrop

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overcomeB1overconfidentovercookovercrowdoverdooverdoseoverdraftC1

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