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overregularize

Verb

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overregularize (third-person singular simple present overregularizes, present participle overregularizing, simple past and past participle overregularized)

(linguistics, intransitive) To apply (a rule of language) too widely.
A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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