Meanings
verboverimagine (third-person singular simple present overimagines, present participle overimagining, simple past and past participle overimagined)
present singular third person overimagines · participle present overimagining · participle past overimagined · past overimagined
- transitiveTo imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.
There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.
2015 July 17, Boris Fishman, “‘The Pinch,’ by Steve Stern”, in New York Times
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overimagine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimagine
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“overimagine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimagine. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overimagine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimagine.
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