Overcolour
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect.
Verb
- 1 To exaggerate. figuratively, transitive
"But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors."
Example
More examples"But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors."
Etymology
From over- + colour.
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