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overrespond

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To respond excessively.

intransitive

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.””

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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