overelaborate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
- overelaborately adverb
- overelaborateness noun
- overelaboration noun
Etymology
Origin of overelaborate
Example Sentences
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What happens next in “Devil House” is complicated, and I want to be careful not to overelaborate.
From New York Times
The overelaborate surfaces seem to evoke globalization as a simple excess.
From New York Times
Are we still waiting around for Toni Morrison’s rather wordy and overelaborate sentences to let themselves be “more clearly interpreted?”
From Washington Post
“You get the sense that Southgate has been part of the team when England have bowled into town, declared themselves favorites and crashed out playing these horribly imbalanced teams full of stars, and overelaborate systems they barely understand. He knows what traps to avoid”.
From Reuters
But he will follow a tactical plan, he will not overelaborate and he will devastate a full-back who gives him half a chance.
From The Guardian
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