overscorev.
/ˌəʊvəˈskɔː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈskɔr/ 1. transitive. To draw a line through or over; spec. to obliterate by scoring across, to cross out. Also: to cover with scores or cuts. Also figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)]
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to wash out1580
to blur out1581
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to wipe (off) the slate1921
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
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to strike out1530
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to strike off1597
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to run through1817
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to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
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1834 E. A. Poe Assignation in Lady's Bk. (L. A. Godey & Co.) Jan. 43/1 It had been written ‘London’, and afterwards carefully overscored; although not so effectually as to conceal the word from a scrutinizing eye.
1855 R. Browning Love among Ruins iv The single little turret..By the caper overrooted, by the gourd Overscored.
1875 H. James Roderick Hudson vi. 210 The soft atmospheric hum was overscored with distincter sounds.
1901 E. F. Benson Luck of Vails III. xx. 233 The boon of the doctor's arrival quite overscored that sinister impression he had formed of him.
1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 310/1 The next line (overscored on the only surviving copy) reads [etc.].
2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 July 14 The cumulonimbus in the sky is overscored by three taut, black parallel power cables.
2. transitive. To score (music) with excessively elaborate orchestration; to provide (a film, etc.) with too elaborate a musical score. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > score or orchestrate
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symphonize1932
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1947 N. 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.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Sept. t9 The film, well shot by Peter Menzies Jr but overscored by Elliot Goldenthal, keeps on dropping its most interesting facets.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 20 Aug. 17 The composer overuses his enormous resources and routinely overscores everything.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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