overimagine

verb

overimagine

verb

Etymology From over- + imagine.

1

To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.

There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.2015 July 17, Boris Fishman, “‘The Pinch,’ by Steve Stern”, in New York Times:

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