| 释义 |
ˌoverˈsay, v. rare.
[over- 27, 20.]
†a. intr. To say too much. Obs.
†b. trans. To say over, repeat (Ogilvie, citing Ford, 17th c.) Obs.
1655Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. Pref. 10 How hard a thing it is..to do or say all that is needful in a weighty business, and not in some thing or other to over-say, or over-do. 1874[see unswear v.].
c. To exaggerate, overstate.
1900Scribner's Mag. Sept. 368/2 This is oversaying it, of course, but the truth is in what I say. 1933G.K.'s Weekly 21 Sept. 41/2, I assure you that if what I say runs towards superlatives it does not oversay what I still think and feel.
Hence overˈsaying vbl. n.
1916T. MacDonagh Lit. in Ireland 46 Latin dispenses with the redundancies, the over-sayings, compressing a phrase into a verb. |