Meaning

1 senses

  1. To apply (a rule of language) too widely.

    A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".

Origin

From over- + regularize.

From over- + regularize.

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Forms

overregularizes, overregularizing, overregularized, overregularized
Base formoverregularize · to overregularize
3rd person singularoverregularizes
Present participleoverregularizing
Past simpleoverregularized
Past participleoverregularized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverregularize
he, she, itoverregularizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverregularized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overregularize

Word family

1 related words
Relatedoverregularization

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overqualifiedoverrateoverreactoverrelianceoverrideoverrule
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