Overorganize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To organize in too much detail. transitive
  2. 2
    To become too politically or socially cohesive and structured. intransitive

    "As the decade wore on, the sexy/anarchist "attitude" wore down […] and the mail became dominated by gay press releases from organizations and gay businesses. Maybe we over-organized, and stifled the poetry."

Example

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"As the decade wore on, the sexy/anarchist "attitude" wore down […] and the mail became dominated by gay press releases from organizations and gay businesses. Maybe we over-organized, and stifled the poetry."

Etymology

From over- + organize.

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