Sekirov Dictionary

overread

/əʊvəˈɹiːd/

verb 3
adjective 1
forms 4

verb3

To read too much or excessively.
•
To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
- To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones. — 2005
•
(no longer used) To read over, or peruse.
- Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […]. — 1590

adjective1

Having read too much.

forms

overreading · overreads · more overread · most overread

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