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overreads

overreads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overread.

Meaning of overread

Verb

overread (third-person singular simple present overreads, present participle overreading, simple past and past participle overread)

  1. (obsolete) To read over, or peruse.
    • 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 […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (ambitransitive) To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
    • To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.2005, Hilde Heynen, Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity
  3. To read too much or excessively.

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Questions about overreads

What is overreads the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overreads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overread.

Words near overreads in the dictionary

  1. overreaders
  2. overreadily
  3. overreadiness
  4. overreading
  5. overreadings
  6. overreads
  7. overready
  8. overrealism
  9. overrealistic
  10. overreckon
  11. overreckoned

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