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overread

verb
/əʊvəˈɹiːd/UK/əʊvəˈɹɛd/

Etymology

From Middle English overreden, from Old English oferrǣdan (“to read over; read through; consider”), equivalent to over- + read.

  1. inherited from oferrǣdan — “to read over; read through; consider”
  2. inherited from overreden

Definitions

  1. 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 […].

  2. To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate

    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.
    • At the same time, we overread. That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.
    • Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world?

  3. To read too much or excessively.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Having read too much.

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Derived

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