overspelling

Verb

overspell (third-person singular simple present overspells, present participle overspelling, simple past and past participle overspelled)

1. To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters.
   • “Exactly,” said the professor; “he overspells in some places, but it was not for its spelling but for its honesty that I laid it before you, Mr. Trustee.”1896, Walter Lecky, Mr. Billy Buttons: A Novel, page 85
2. To state something in too much detail or too explicitly.
   • The main difference between America's humor and England's humour is that they overspell it.1969, William Cole, The Punch line
3. To take over by a magic spell.
   • A river of black gore gushed from the wound, And reeling back he fell supine on earth : A ghastly glamour overspelled his eye, And thro' and over all his mailed skin :1891, Gilbert Beresford, Poems, page 39