"overstimulate" meaning in English

See overstimulate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: overstimulates [present, singular, third-person], overstimulating [participle, present], overstimulated [participle, past], overstimulated [past]
Etymology: over- + stimulate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|stimulate}} over- + stimulate Head templates: {{en-verb}} overstimulate (third-person singular simple present overstimulates, present participle overstimulating, simple past and past participle overstimulated)
  1. (transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-overstimulate-en-verb-dR8P--WA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overstimulate meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "understimulate"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "stimulate"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + stimulate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + stimulate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overstimulates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overstimulate (third-person singular simple present overstimulates, present participle overstimulating, simple past and past participle overstimulated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation."
      ],
      "id": "en-overstimulate-en-verb-dR8P--WA",
      "links": [
        [
          "stimulate",
          "stimulate"
        ],
        [
          "stimulation",
          "stimulation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overstimulate"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "understimulate"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "stimulate"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + stimulate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + stimulate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overstimulates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overstimulated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overstimulate (third-person singular simple present overstimulates, present participle overstimulating, simple past and past participle overstimulated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with over-",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stimulate",
          "stimulate"
        ],
        [
          "stimulation",
          "stimulation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overstimulate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.