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OVERPRAISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overpraise mean?
• OVERPRAISE (verb)
The verb OVERPRAISE has 1 sense:
1. praise excessively
Familiarity information: OVERPRAISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they overpraise ... he / she / it overpraises
Past simple: overpraised
Past participle: overpraised
-ing form: overpraising
... he / she / it overpraises Past simple: overpraised
Past participle: overpraised
-ing form: overpraising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Praise excessively
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "overpraise" is one way to...):
exaggerate; overdo (do something to an excessive degree)
Sentence frames:
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Context examples
Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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