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overimagine en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + imagine.

Meanings

1. (transitive) 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. 2015 July 17, Boris Fishman, “‘The Pinch,’ by Steve Stern”, in New York Times:

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