Meaning of overread | Babel Free

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.

Equivalents

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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