overcolour

English

Alternative forms

• overcolor

Etymology

From over- +‎ colour.

Verb

overcolour (third-person singular simple present overcolours, present participle overcolouring, simple past and past participle overcoloured)

1. (transitive) To exaggerate.
   • 1922, Ronald McNeill, Ulster's Stand For Union‎^[1]:

     He never sought to gain or augment the confidence of his followers by concealing facts, minimising difficulties, or overcolouring expectations.

   • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage, Complete‎^[2]:

     But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.

Noun

overcolour (plural overcolours)

1. (art) Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect