overpublicize

English

Etymology

over- +‎ publicize

Verb

overpublicize (third-person singular simple present overpublicizes, present participle overpublicizing, simple past and past participle overpublicized)

1. (transitive) To publicize excessively.
   • 2009 August 23, “A Richard Poirier Reader: The Beatles and Parody, Capote and Narcissism”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes.