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overrespond en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + respond.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To respond excessively.
   • The impulse behind purple prose, he wrote, “is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened by something intolerably vivid.” 2015 October 21, William Grimes, “Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85”, in New York Times:

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