overtalk

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verb

To talk too much.

Opposite
undertalk
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Meanings

verbovertalk (third-person singular simple present overtalks, present participle overtalking, simple past and past participle overtalked)

present singular third person overtalks · participle present overtalking · participle past overtalked · past overtalked

  1. intransitiveTo talk too much.
  2. transitiveTo overcome or persuade by talking; talk over.
  3. transitiveTo overstate; overexaggerate; talk up to seem greater than what is actual.

    […] and he panted like a young faan in her fust race with the hounds, for he was overtalkin' his strength, and I feered he would die for sartin ef he didn't fetch up a bit and git rested; […]

    1889, William Henry Harrison Murray, The story that the keg told me and The story of the man who didn't
nounovertalk (countable and uncountable, plural overtalks)

plural overtalks

  1. countableuncountableExcessive talking.
  2. countableuncountableSimultaneous speech or talk which drowns out all other speakers.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
undertalk

Origin

From over- + talk.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

talkover
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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