overrespond

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To respond excessively. intransitive
    — The impulse behind purple prose, he wrote, “is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened by something intolerably vivid.”

词形变化

overresponds present,singular,third-person overresponding participle,present overresponded participle,past overresponded past

词源

From over- + respond.
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