Overrespond
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To respond excessively. intransitive
"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.”"
Example
More examples"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.”"
Etymology
From over- + respond.
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