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Definition of Overdevelop
1. v. t. To develop excessively;
Definition of Overdevelop
1. Verb. To develop to an excessive degree ¹
2. Verb. (photography) To develop a photographic film for too long ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overdevelop
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdevelop
Literary usage of Overdevelop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1907)
"On no account overdevelop. Never do this, even if you have a ghost of an image,
... If you overdevelop the two or three tones, the high lights will gather ..."
2. Mind (1899)
"... take care that he does not overdevelop his digestive system beyond the needs
of the body by any undue indulgence in eating and drinking. ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1906)
"We may overcrowd the memory ; we may overdo motor education ; we may overdevelop
the emotional nature : but not so with assimilation; it proceeds only as ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In copying maps and line drawings, where dead blacks and pure whites are desired,
expose fully and overdevelop. ..."
5. Camera (1907)
"Because you would have to do one of three things—develop them normally, correctly,
or underdevelop them, or overdevelop ..."
6. Engineering Education: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Society by Meeting (1896)
"... is difficult to over-develop mathematics and mechanics for engineers; it is
easily possible to overdevelop analytical chemistry for such students. ..."
7. Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding (1920)
"Though of frail physique,1 and though living in an environment which tended to
overdevelop his fastidious nature, Chopin had a fiery soul, ..."
8. Personnel Administration: Its Principles and Practice by Ordway Tead, Henry Clayton Metcalf (1920)
"There has been in some organizations an unfortunate tendency to overdevelop some
one activity which was of special interest to some executive. ..."
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