"over-zealous" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more over-zealous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most over-zealous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "head": "over-zealous"
      },
      "expansion": "over-zealous (comparative more over-zealous, superlative most over-zealous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "overzealous"
        }
      ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, Thomas R. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:",
          "text": "Long afterward I learned that I was shadowed for six months by Secret Service men in the fear that I might be assaulted by some over-zealous union man. Of this I was not aware at the time, or I should have taken steps to have prevented it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of overzealous"
      ],
      "id": "en-over-zealous-en-adj-kkjtd~TL",
      "links": [
        [
          "overzealous",
          "overzealous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "over-zealous"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more over-zealous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most over-zealous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "over-zealous"
      },
      "expansion": "over-zealous (comparative more over-zealous, superlative most over-zealous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "overzealous"
        }
      ],
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, Thomas R. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:",
          "text": "Long afterward I learned that I was shadowed for six months by Secret Service men in the fear that I might be assaulted by some over-zealous union man. Of this I was not aware at the time, or I should have taken steps to have prevented it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of overzealous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overzealous",
          "overzealous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "over-zealous"
}