Overimagine

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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

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"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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