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overimagined

overimagined is the simple past and past participle of overimagine.

Meaning of overimagine

Verb

overimagine (third-person singular simple present overimagines, present participle overimagining, simple past and past participle overimagined)

  1. (transitive) To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.
    • There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.2015 July 17, Boris Fishman, “‘The Pinch,’ by Steve Stern”, in New York Times

Questions about overimagined

What is overimagined the simple past and past participle of?
Overimagined is the simple past and past participle of overimagine.

Words near overimagined in the dictionary

  1. overillustrating
  2. overillustration
  3. overimaginative
  4. overimaginativeness
  5. overimagine
  6. overimagined
  7. overimagines
  8. overimaging
  9. overimagining
  10. overimitate
  11. overimitated

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