overdevelop
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overdevelop (third-person singular simple present overdevelops, present participle overdeveloping, simple past and past participle overdeveloped)
- To develop to an excessive degree
- 1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- After all, most neighborhoods in Chicago, outside of overdeveloped Lincoln Park, welcome any kind of retail developments their commercial strips can get.
- (photography) To develop a photographic film for too long
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to develop to an excessive degree
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to develop a photographic film for too long
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