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over-ˈpicture, v. [over- 26, 8.] 1. trans. To represent or picture in excess of the reality; to depict or describe with exaggeration.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 205 She did lye In her Pauillion, cloth of Gold, of Tissue, O're-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancie out-worke Nature. 1856Olmsted Slave States 406 The beautiful rural cemetery..which Willis has..a little over-pictured. 2. To picture over; to cover with pictures of.
1850S. Dobell Roman vii, The future years..with the unborn dead o'erpictured. |