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OVERGENERALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overgeneralise ... he / she / it overgeneralises
Past simple: overgeneralised
Past participle: overgeneralised
-ing form: overgeneralising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Draw too general a conclusion
Example:
It is dangerous to overgeneralize
Synonyms:
overgeneralise; overgeneralize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "overgeneralise" is one way to...):
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
