overdescribe

verb

Etymology

From over- + describe.

  1. derived from dēscrībō
  2. derived from descrivre
  3. derived from descriven
  4. prefixed as overdescribe — “over + describe

Definitions

  1. To provide an overly detailed description.

    • Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?
    • There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.
    • We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overdescribe. 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