overannotate

present singular third person overannotates · participle present overannotating · participle past overannotated · past overannotated

1. To add too many annotations.

   Care must be taken not to overannotate.

   2008, Angela Szczepaniak, Unisex love poems, page 22

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   In most instances, a majority of the notes will be focused here, since one can never overannotate in the area of fundamental meaning.

   1992, Jeffrey P. Mass, Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History, →ISBN, page 155

   I do tell them that if they overannotate they will kill the book, and that if they underannotate they will not get to levels of deeper reading.

   2015, Kelly Gallagher, In the Best Interest of Students, →ISBN