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Definition of Overdeveloping
1. overdevelop [v] - See also: overdevelop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdeveloping
Literary usage of Overdeveloping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Masters of Modern French Criticism by Irving Babbitt (1912)
"... of mind that characterize men like Renan and Sainte-Beuve, are not qualities
that from present appearances we run any risk of overdeveloping. ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"Occasionally I get a negative too dense for easy printing, but overdeveloping is
the easiest error to correct and need trouble no one. ..."
3. Friends in council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon by Arthur Helps (1857)
"A similar course of argument applies to taking children early to church, and to
overdeveloping their minds in any way. There is no knowing, moreover, ..."
4. The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow (1915)
"But perhaps that very individuality that we blame country life for overdeveloping
may be the favorable ground for the upspringing of this noble human ..."
5. Behind the Motion-picture Screen by Austin Celestin Lescarboura (1919)
"... and, moreover, had been ruined by under- developing and overdeveloping by some
one who had tried to correct bad exposures in the developing tank, ..."
6. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"A mistake is sometimes made in overdeveloping the chest muscles, so that the
chest becomes to a certain extent "muscle-bound," and the expansion is lessened ..."
7. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"... in the posing and arranging, observe that the effects thus far sought for are
not lost by a wrong exposure, or by under- or overdeveloping. ..."
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