overread

Definitions

1. To read over, or peruse.
   obsolete
2. To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
   ambitransitive
3. To read too much or excessively.

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Examples

“Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find⟳ what sence it figured […].”

“To overread Plath's houses is to transform⟳ these biographical documents into spatial ones.”

“At the same time, we overread. That is, we find⟳ in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct⟳ evidence in the discourse.”

“Did we just overread and overstate our place⟳ in the world?”

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