overspecify
/ˌəʊvəˈspɛsɪfʌɪ/verb
[with object] To specify too narrowly or in excessive detail; to limit too much in scope.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Robert King Merton (1910–2003). From over- + specify.
- pitcher's mound
- pitcher vase
- pitch-farthing
- pitch fiber
- pitch fibre
- pitch fir
- pitchfork
- pitch-hole
- pitchi
- pitch in
- pitchiness
- pitching axis
- pitching hole
- pitching moment
- pitching mound
- pitching pence
- pitching piece
- pitching stone
- pitching temperature
- pitching yeast
- pitch inspection
- pitch into
- pitch invasion
- pitch kettle
- pitch-kettled