overprove

verb — 2 senses

verb

Etymology From over- + prove.

to prove excessively or beyond what is asked or required

I think many of his devices are, in fact, quite arbitrary; that he betrays a Germanic ponderousness at times and a tendency to overprove what is quite clear in the first place.1994, James McFarlane, The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen:

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