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overread en · ADJ

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

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more overread	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most overread	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

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

(obsolete) 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 […]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
(ambitransitive) 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. 2005, Hilde Heynen, Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity:
- 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. 2008, H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative:
- Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world? 2009 January 20, Heather Timmons, Jeremy Kahn, “Past Graft Is Tainting New India”, in New York Times:
To read too much or excessively.

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overread	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
overread	Tense=Past	lexicographic
overreading	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
overreads	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic