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overshare

overshare verb: to share too much or in excess.

Verb

overshare (third-person singular simple present overshares, present participle oversharing, simple past and past participle overshared)

  1. (transitive) To share too much or in excess.
    Antonyms:
    undershare
  2. (intransitive) To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.
    • "I've been told by certain people that I have a tendency to overshare with strangers. I hope I haven't bored you with the details of my life.2007, Carol Culver, Manderley Prep, page 25
    • To be clear, I love Twitter. It is the culture of oversharing and status anxiety that disturbs me. And that is inseparable from the grip of social media.2012 December 10, Roger Cohen, “Time to Tune Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun

overshare (plural overshares)

  1. An instance of sharing or divulging too much.
    • In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling.2019, Management Association, Information Resources, Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security, page 635
    • The sore throat was because of his late night and deep connection with another woman, which he confessed to Zerrin in an honest but unsolicited overshare.2021 October 22, Kayla Ringelheim, “Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

overshare meaning in Tamil

overshare in Tamil

மிக்குரையாளர்

Examples of overshare in a sentence

  • If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission.2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN:
  • I’ve overshared about my mother in print.2018 January 23, John Sutherland, “Oversharing has its perils, but telling all about my mother worked for me”, in The Guardian:
  • Most parents do not overshare online because they are malicious; they simply have not fully considered the significance of their child’s digital footprint.2020 August 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Antonyms of overshare

Forms of overshare

Verb
third-person singular presentovershares
present participleoversharing
past participleovershared
pastovershared
Noun
pluralovershares

Origin of overshare

From over- + share.

Words formed from overshare

Questions about overshare

What does overshare mean?
Overshare means to share too much or in excess.
What is overshare in Tamil?
Overshare in Tamil is மிக்குரையாளர். See Overshare meaning in Tamil.
How do you use overshare in a sentence?
If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission.
What part of speech is overshare?
Overshare can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overshare?
The past tense of overshare is overshared.

Words near overshare in the dictionary

  1. overshampoos
  2. overshape
  3. overshaped
  4. overshapes
  5. overshaping
  6. overshare
  7. overshared
  8. oversharent
  9. oversharented
  10. oversharenting
  11. oversharents

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overshare (page history and authors); overshare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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