Meaning

1 senses

  1. To glorify excessively; to praise too much.

    Abraham Lincoln is often overglorified in elementary school classrooms.

Origin

From over- + glorify.

From over- + glorify.

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Forms

overglorifies, overglorifying, overglorified, overglorified
Base formoverglorify · to overglorify
3rd person singularoverglorifies
Present participleoverglorifying
Past simpleoverglorified
Past participleoverglorified

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverglorify
he, she, itoverglorifies

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverglorified

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overglorify

Word family

2 related words
Relatedoverglorificationunderglorified

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overfilloverflowovergrazingoverhangoverhaul
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