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单词 overdescribe
释义

overdescribe

English

Etymology

over- + describe

Verb

overdescribe (third-person singular simple present overdescribes, present participle overdescribing, simple past and past participle overdescribed)

  1. To provide an overly detailed description.
    • 1998, James V. Smith, You Can Write a Novel, →ISBN, page 44:
      Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?
    • 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
      There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.
    • 2018, Neil Landau, TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era, →ISBN:
      We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things.
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