Overregularize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To apply (a rule of language) too widely. intransitive

    "A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went"."

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"A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went"."

Etymology

From over- + regularize.

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