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In some senses, overread is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
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VERB + OVERREAD
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OVERREAD + NOUN
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verb
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 […].
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.
To read too much or excessively.
adj
Having read too much.
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 […].
WiktionaryTo overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
WiktionaryAt 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.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, overread is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.