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overimagine

verb

Etymology

From over- + imagine.

  1. derived from imāginor
  2. derived from imaginer
  3. inherited from ymagynen
  4. prefixed as overimagine — “over + imagine”

Definitions

  1. To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.

    • There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA