overdescribe
verbEtymology From over- + describe.
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To provide an overly detailed description.
- Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?1998, James V. Smith, You Can Write a Novel, →ISBN, page 44:
- There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
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- We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things.2018, Neil Landau, TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era, →ISBN: