ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overrespond

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Overrespond is a verb meaning (intransitive) To respond excessively.

Meaning

(intransitive) To respond excessively.

Example Sentences

The impulse behind purple prose, he wrote, “is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened by something intolerably vivid.”

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overreact, overcompensate, overdo, overaddress, overapologize, hyperreact.

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