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overcelebrate en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + celebrate.

Meanings

1. To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.
   • Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory. 1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, →ISBN, page 124:
   • Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament. 2013, Michael Underwood, Murder Made Absolute, →ISBN:
   • As you can see, I've overcelebrated the holidays. 1989, No easy place to be, page 114:
2. To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.
   • The urge to overcelebrate the promise has had many sources. 2015, Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, →ISBN, page 197:
   • There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs 2013, Jack McCallum, The Prostate Monologues, →ISBN:
   • According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make a big deal out of the good and little stuff that we want consistently. 2004, Marilyn L. Grady, 20 Biggest Mistakes Principals Make and How to Avoid Them, →ISBN, page 5:

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