overpicture
English
Etymology
over- + picture
Verb
overpicture (third-person singular simple present overpictures, present participle overpicturing, simple past and past participle overpictured)
- (transitive, obsolete) To surpass nature in the picture or representation of; describe or portray with exaggeration.
- Shakespeare
- O'er-picturing that Venus
- Shakespeare
See also
- overexaggerate
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overpicture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)