overrestore
verbEtymology From over- + restore.
1
To impair (an old artwork, building, etc.) by restoring it too enthusiastically.
- “We didn’t want to overrestore it,” Mr. Allen said.2008 June 14, David W. Dunlap, “A Father’s Tribute to Three Dead Daughters Is Restored”, in New York Times:
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