overdescribe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?"
"There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe."
"We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things."

From over- + describe.

overdescribes (present, singular) overdescribing (participle, present) overdescribed (participle, past) overdescribed (past)

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