Definition of "overdevelop" [o•ver•de•vel•op]

• To develop to excess: muscles that were overdeveloped by weightlifting. (verb-transitive)
• To process (a photographic plate or film) too long or in too concentrated a solution. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They contend that they have studied the transport systems in America and particularly in Canada and they say that they don't want to overdevelop their railway system."
• "According to Byram, there's a tendency for pitchers to overdevelop the internal rotators of their shoulders because those are the muscles that speed the arm forward."
• ""They have failed plan for the sizeable increase in Victoria's population which has added to pressure to overdevelop areas," he said."