Meaning of overcelebrate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.
2. To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.

Examples

“As you can see⟳, I've overcelebrated the holidays.”

“Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip⟳ home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory.”

“Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament.”

“According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make⟳ a big deal⟳ out of the good and little stuff that we want⟳ consistently.”

“There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find⟳ the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs”

“The urge⟳ to overcelebrate the promise⟳ has had many sources.”

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