OVEREXPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overexpose mean? 

• OVEREXPOSE (verb)
  The verb OVEREXPOSE has 2 senses:

1. expose to too much light

2. expose excessively

  Familiarity information: OVEREXPOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVEREXPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overexpose    ... he / she / it overexposes   
Past simple: overexposed   
Past participle: overexposed   
-ing form: overexposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose to too much light

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

the photographic film was overexposed and there is no image

Hypernyms (to "overexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overexpose"):

solarise; solarize (overexpose to sunlight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

underexpose (expose to too little light)

Derivation:

overexposure (the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expose excessively

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

As a child, I was overexposed to French movies

Hypernyms (to "overexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Antonym:

underexpose (expose insufficiently)

Derivation:

overexposure (the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience)

 Context examples 

Because the central region glows very brightly, the detectors on space telescopes were saturated at the wavelengths SOFIA studied, similar to an overexposed photo.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)