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overˈscore, v.
[over- 8, 27.]
trans. a. To score over; to cover with scores, cuts, or deleting lines. b. To obliterate by scoring across. Also fig.
1849Poe Assignation Wks. 1856 I. 379 It had been originally written London, and afterwards carefully overscored—not, however, so effectually as to conceal the word from a scrutinizing eye. 1855Browning Love among Ruins iv, The single little turret..By the caper overrooted, by the gourd Overscored. 1875H. James R. Hudson vi. 210 The soft atmospheric hum was overscored with distincter sounds. 1901E. F. Benson Luck of Vails III. xii. 115 The gentle hum of the warm afternoon came languidly in. Suddenly a fuller note began to overscore these noises in gradual crescendo. Ibid. xx. 233 The boon of the doctor's arrival quite overscored that sinister impression he had formed of him.
c. To score (music) with excessively elaborate orchestration. Also absol.
1947N. Cardus Autobiogr. iii. 263 There is a fine sensibility moving darkly in the symphonies of Arnold Bax, but he tends to let his texture become congested; he over-scores. 1947C. Gray Contingencies i. 37 The characteristic vice of overscoring is significant [in music of the Edwardian era]. 1977Gramophone Feb. 1249/1 It is all too easy to dismiss his post-war orchestral works as garrulous, repetitive and over-scored. |