Meaning

2 senses

  1. To spend too much money in speculation.

  2. To speculate excessively.

Origin

From over- + speculate.

From over- + speculate.

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Forms

overspeculates, overspeculating, overspeculated, overspeculated
Base formoverspeculate · to overspeculate
3rd person singularoverspeculates
Present participleoverspeculating
Past simpleoverspeculated
Past participleoverspeculated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverspeculate
he, she, itoverspeculates

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverspeculated

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overspeculate

Word family

1 related words
Relatedoverspeculation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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