overdevelop

To develop to an excessive degree

Verb

  1. To develop to an excessive degree
    • After all, most neighborhoods in Chicago, outside of overdeveloped Lincoln Park, welcome any kind of retail developments their commercial strips can get. - 1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater:...
  2. To develop a photographic film for too long

Origin

From over- + develop.

Forms

overdevelops overdeveloping overdeveloped

Antonyms

underdevelop

Derived

overdevelopment