overdescribe

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ describe.

Verb

overdescribe (third-person singular simple present overdescribes, present participle overdescribing, simple past and past participle overdescribed)

1. To provide an overly detailed description.
   • 1998, James V. Smith, You Can Write a Novel, →ISBN, page 44:

     Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?

   • 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:

     There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.

   • 2018, Neil Landau, TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era, →ISBN:

     We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things.