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overanimate

overanimate verb: to animate excessively.

Verb

overanimate (third-person singular simple present overanimates, present participle overanimating, simple past and past participle overanimated)

  1. (transitive) To animate excessively.
    • Kalipada Das adopts Harold Lloyd's use of overanimated gestures and acrobatic body movement.2013, Babli Sinha, Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj
    • Lightning is a very quick and simple animation technique that can easily be overanimated. Don't try and animate the lightning bolt into the frame by building it up over a sequence of keyframes.2013, Chris Georgenes, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS6: The Art of Design and Animation

Forms of overanimate

third-person singular presentoveranimates
present participleoveranimating
past participleoveranimated
pastoveranimated

Origin of overanimate

From over- + animate.

Questions about overanimate

What does overanimate mean?
Overanimate means to animate excessively.
What part of speech is overanimate?
Overanimate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overanimate?
The past tense of overanimate is overanimated.

Words near overanimate in the dictionary

  1. overanesthetize
  2. overanesthetized
  3. overanesthetizes
  4. overanesthetizing
  5. overangelic
  6. overanimate
  7. overanimated
  8. overanimates
  9. overanimating
  10. overannotate
  11. overannotated

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