Definitions

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  • adjective Excessively amplified
  • verb Past participle of overamplify

Etymologies

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over- +‎ amplified

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Examples

  • Most of the cast is equally at home in opera and musical comedy all overamplified on opening night, an error surely corrected by now.

    'Sweeney Todd' Is a Cut Above Judy Fayard 2011

  • She just put on a headset and started talking on a microphone, leading me on an overamplified phobia-free journey through the process of flying.

    uncharted terriTORI Tori Spelling 2010

  • The cast DeMille ended up with—Reginald Denny, Kay Johnson—is utterly sexless, and the film itself is dramatically overamplified and lacks charm.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • She just put on a headset and started talking on a microphone, leading me on an overamplified phobia-free journey through the process of flying.

    uncharted terriTORI Tori Spelling 2010

  • Slumped low in his seat, the driver, who is also the auctioneer, calls out each new lot on a scratchy, overamplified public-address system.

    Going One, Going Twice: The Parity Disparity BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • "Heart" epitomizes the spirit of this production: the chorus of ballplayers is so eager to please that it numbs you with heartiness, an effect reinforced by the show's overamplified sound system.

    'Damn Yankees' Steals Home 2008

  • I have certain issues with overamplified music - not least that it makes my ears hurt for hours afterwards - which is why I don't go more often.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jessica 2007

  • I have certain issues with overamplified music - not least that it makes my ears hurt for hours afterwards - which is why I don't go more often.

    Barbican burns down Jessica 2007

  • My point with the Bonds analogy is that the next step is when those overamplified things become accepted as reality and take on their own momentum.

    Dickhead 2005

  • It was surreal as if in the midst of the loud and boisterous and overamplified praise music singing, there were these spaces of quiet for the soul in the chant.

    More angst over the Motu proprio Argent 2006

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