overoperate
verb
over·op·er·ate
| \ ˌō-vər-ˈä-pə-ˌrāt
, -ˈä-ˌprāt\
, -ˈä-ˌprāt\
overoperated;
overoperating
Definition of overoperate
: to perform surgery on someone or something unnecessarily or to an excessive and often harmful degree
questioned whether the hospital's policies encouraged surgeons to overoperate overoperate a knee problem The patients, of course, want significant rejuvenation …. They want to look "young, not done," "rejuvenated and not overoperated."— Steven B. Hopping
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