overaccommodate
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over- + accommodate
Verb edit
overaccommodate (third-person singular simple present overaccommodates, present participle overaccommodating, simple past and past participle overaccommodated)
- (transitive) To be too accommodating towards.
- 2008 March 17, “Governor Paterson’s Tests”, in New York Times[1]:
- Finally, the accommodating new governor needs to make certain he does not overaccommodate Albany’s leaders.
- (ophthalmology) To adjust the focus of the eye so that the image resolves at a point behind the retina.