Definitions
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- verb transitive To
exaggerate .
Etymologies
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over- + colour
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Examples
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He was affected after a minute, face to face with his actual comrade, by the impulse to overcolour.
The Ambassadors 2003
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He was affected after a minute, face to face with his actual comrade, by the impulse to overcolour.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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st. ixSome overcolour, some overpressure of the phrase remains here: so in st. xiii: Keats has not yet reached the self-restraint and clearness of his latest work.
Notes 1884
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