overrespond

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verb

To respond excessively.

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Meanings

verboverrespond (third-person singular simple present overresponds, present participle overresponding, simple past and past participle overresponded)

present singular third person overresponds · participle present overresponding · participle past overresponded · past overresponded

  1. intransitiveTo respond excessively.

    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.”

    2015 October 21, William Grimes, “Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + respond.

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APA

overrespond. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrespond

MLA

“overrespond.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrespond. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overrespond,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrespond.

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