overcommunicate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + communicate.
Verb
[edit]overcommunicate (third-person singular simple present overcommunicates, present participle overcommunicating, simple past and past participle overcommunicated)
- To communicate too much.
- 0200 August 30, Adam Bryant, quoting Deborah Dunsire, “Stepping Out of the Sandbox”, in New York Times[1]:
- So I think I’ve learned to overcommunicate in a way that I never did before.
- 2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting David Priest, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- “You have to overcommunicate to an incredible degree,” Dr. Priest said, “because we still get questions on things that I think, ‘This was well-known 18 months ago.’