overconstruct
verbEtymology From over- + construct.
1
To place too great a construction upon; to exaggerate.
- The first is a caveat against the tendency to overconstruct a link between patterns of urban dwelling and cultural practices in South Africa.1996, Veit Erlmann, Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa, page 119:
- Very often theorists are prone to overconstruct facts, that is to endow them with greater meaning than is warranted by the observations.2012, Fritz Zwicky, Morphological Astronomy, page 26:
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