Is there a word which means to overuse a word to the point where the word becomes meaningless?

Question

For example, "revolutionary" used to describe a new laundry deteregent. I thought the act of overusing a word would be to reify, but i did not find that in the dictionary.

Please help oh you erudite folks?

Thanks

Answer 1

To reify is to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.

I believe the common term is cliché.

With clichés, there is a kind of inevitable cycle. First someone comes up with the usage, then for a brief and shining moment, it perfectly sums up what it is supposed to. It becomes a stereotype. Then, it is used one too many times. And then again. Then it is repeated so frequently that it becomes invisible--not literally of course--but it might as well be invisible. Then it becomes so accepted that it is part of the culture, and becomes an archetype. (An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned or emulated. )

I am being somewhat tongue in cheek here; and yet it is essentially true.

Anyway, overuse of a buzzword (like revolutionary) eventually makes it become invisible. It's kind of like the boy who cried wolf. We get used to everything, no matter how shocking. I guess that's why advertising agencies make the big bucks.

Answer 2

I am absolutely impacted by this non-life threatening incident. And deny that resolution of the revocation of the veto could reverse the inverse of the absolute impact.

Answer 3

A word that becomes overused is trite or hackneyed.

Answer 4

verbiage of superfluous syntax ?

Answer 5

Like, if you find one, like, let me know

Answer 6

i think you mean repetitive