overconsolidate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ consolidate

Verb

overconsolidate (third-person singular simple present overconsolidates, present participle overconsolidating, simple past and past participle overconsolidated)

1. To consolidate too much.
   • 1987, Kenneth N. Weaver, Setting Priorities for Abandoned Mine Land Research, page 65:

     Often they will overconsolidate the recontoured surface, creating compacted soils unsuitable for seed beds.

   • 2009, Harvard Business Review, Executing Strategy, →ISBN, page 20:

     Resist the temptation to overconsolidate—that is, avoid lumping lots of ideas under one subject.

   • 2017, Robert J. Ursano, Carol S. Fullerton, Lars Weisaeth, Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 71:

     It has also been hypothesized that compared to people who are vulnerable to stress, stress-resilient individuals are less likely to overconsolidate emotional memories and may have an enhanced ability to reorganize existing emotional memories and to extinguish traumatic memories (Wu et al., 2013).