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Meaning of overrespond | Babel Free

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

overresponded overresponding overresponds overrestore overrestored overrestoring

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