overaccommodate

verb

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate English overaccommodate From over- + accommodate.

Definitions

  1. To be too accommodating towards.

    • Finally, the accommodating new governor needs to make certain he does not overaccommodate Albany’s leaders.
  2. To adjust the focus of the eye so that the image resolves at a point behind the retina.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overaccommodate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA