overproduce
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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overproduces,
present (3rd person singular)
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overproduced,
past participle, past
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overproducing
present participle
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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overproducesimple
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overproducessimple
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have overproducedperfect
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has overproducedperfect
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am overproducingprogressive
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are overproducingprogressive
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is overproducingprogressive
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have been overproducingperfect progressive
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has been overproducingperfect progressive
Past
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overproducedsimple
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had overproducedperfect
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was overproducingprogressive
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were overproducingprogressive
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had been overproducingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of overproduce
Example Sentences
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That refers to when countries overproduce and then dump their excess goods into another nation, potentially putting the importer’s local manufacturers out of business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
But once they’re designed, the incremental cost of manufacturing more units is relatively small, so makers routinely overproduce, and sell any excess to smaller providers with less specific needs, Madannavar says.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Santos's team found that the mutation involves the loss of a small fragment of a chromosome, which causes a gene to overproduce a key protein in brain cells.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
He told our producer, “I can’t have you overproduce this thing with a bunch of harmonies. Just record the band.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
“You will, too! Everybody’s sebaceous glands overproduce when they go through puberty!”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
When the gene is mutated, it overproduces the corresponding human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 protein to trigger unhinged cell division.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
In terms of discomfort, you can get diarrhea when your body overproduces gastric mucus, causing your digestion rate to speed up too much.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2019
That's when London suffered a severe bout of psoriasis, a skin disease in which the body overproduces skin cells.
From US News ● Oct. 17, 2012
“We overproduced elite candidates, but there weren’t that many elite jobs to begin with — and they’re starting to shrink.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
And the Met’s overproduced installation—comprising dark, black halls and bright, white fluorescent tubes—mimics and competes with the artworks themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Keep throwing existing Housewives and Bravolebs into new situations that let them move beyond the confines of the overproduced current iteration of the “Housewives” structure.
From Salon ● May 5, 2025
Mulyana pulls from used materials and overproduced plastics in his hometown of Yogyakarta — and sometimes abroad — to make his creations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
“No, really. For overproduced commercial pap, it’s not too bad.”
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
But the secondhand programs won’t solve the industry’s sustainability predicament if it doesn’t stop intentionally overproducing clothes with the goal of putting leftover stock on sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The companies are subject to the whims of the government and have a habit of overproducing, leading to oversupply and falling profits.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Both the U.S. and Europe have accused China of overproducing electric cars and dumping them in overseas markets.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
In our view, recycling is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for overproducing and consuming goods, and it is time that the U.S. stopped treating it as such.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2023
The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump.
From In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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