overcelebrate

present singular third person overcelebrates · participle present overcelebrating · participle past overcelebrated · past overcelebrated · alternative over-celebrate

1. To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.

   As you can see, I've overcelebrated the holidays.

   1989, No easy place to be, page 114

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   Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory.

   1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, →ISBN, page 124

   Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament.

   2013, Michael Underwood, Murder Made Absolute, →ISBN

2. To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.

   The urge to overcelebrate the promise has had many sources.

   2015, Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, →ISBN, page 197

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   According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make a big deal out of the good and little stuff that we want consistently.

   2004, Marilyn L. Grady, 20 Biggest Mistakes Principals Make and How to Avoid Them, →ISBN, page 5

   There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs

   2013, Jack McCallum, The Prostate Monologues, →ISBN