Terms vs Overreads - What's the difference?
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(overread)
(obsolete) To read over, or peruse.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
*:Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold : she oft and oft it over-red , / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].
To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read too in-depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
*2005 , Hilde Heynen, ?Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity :
*2008 , H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative :
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 20, Heather Timmons And Jeremy Kahn, Past Graft Is Tainting New India, New York Times
, passage=Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world? }}
To read too much or excessively.
As a noun terms
is .As a verb overreads is
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- To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
- At the same time, we overread . That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.
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