Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overconsolidate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-con-sol-i-date
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To consolidate too much.

Example Sentences

"Often they will overconsolidate the recontoured surface, creating compacted soils unsuitable for seed beds."
"Resist the temptation to overconsolidate—that is, avoid lumping lots of ideas under one subject."
"It has also been hypothesized that compared to people who are vulnerable to stress, stress-resilient individuals are less likely to overconsolidate emotional memories and may have an enhanced ability to reorganize existing emotional memories and to extinguish traumatic memories (Wu et al., 2013)."

Etymology

From over- + consolidate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Inflected Forms

overconsolidates (present, singular) overconsolidating (participle, present) overconsolidated (participle, past) overconsolidated (past)

Questions

What does overconsolidate mean?: To consolidate too much.
Where does overconsolidate come from?: From over- + consolidate.

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