OVERPRODUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overproduce mean? 

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

1. produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted

2. produce in excess

  Familiarity information: OVERPRODUCE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERPRODUCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overproduce    ... he / she / it overproduces   
Past simple: overproduced   
Past participle: overproduced   
-ing form: overproducing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

farm; grow; produce; raise (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

overproduction (too much production or more than expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Produce in excess

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The country overproduces cars

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

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

overproduction (too much production or more than expected)

 Context examples 

They found that cold-exposed human stem cell-derived neurons tended to overproduce a byproduct of metabolism known as reactive oxygen species (ROS).

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)

HA is a glycosaminoglycan found in the extracellular matrix (ECM) that is frequently overproduced by various tumor cell types.

(Pegylated Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase PH20, NCI Thesaurus)

MDR1 and MDR2 P-glycoproteins are large apical cell membrane proteins overproduced in multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer cells resistant to diverse hydrophobic drugs.

(Multidrug Resistance Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Mice genetically engineered to overproduce klotho lived longer and had higher levels of klotho in the brain’s hippocampus, an area that controls some types of learning and memory.

(Longevity gene linked to better brain skills, NIH, US)

Previous studies on flies showed that genetically engineering dopamine-releasing nerve cells to overproduce the LRRK2 mutant protein induced nerve cell damage and movement disorders.

(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)

Large membrane proteins overproduced in MDR cells, belong to a family of transport P-glycoproteins known as ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins (ABC-ATPases).

(Multi-Drug Resistance Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)