Overimagine
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion. transitive
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From over- + imagine.
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