"overdefine" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "define"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + define",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + define",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overdefines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefined",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefined",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overdefine (third-person singular simple present overdefines, present participle overdefining, simple past and past participle overdefined)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Charles Reid, Painting Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid",
          "text": "Most students want to overdefine every flower and leaf. In the assignment above, I spoke of “the essence of flowers.” If you overdefine and explain every petal, you will lose the sense of softness and mystery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Walter N. King, Hamlet's Search for Meaning, page 133",
          "text": "The adolescent search for a new and a reliable identity can perhaps best be seen in the persistent endeavor to define, to overdefine, and to redefine oneself and each other in often ruthless comparison […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To define too rigidly, or in too much depth."
      ],
      "id": "en-overdefine-en-verb-dBXmH14f",
      "links": [
        [
          "define",
          "define"
        ],
        [
          "rigid",
          "rigid"
        ],
        [
          "depth",
          "depth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To define too rigidly, or in too much depth."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "overdefinition"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overdefine"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "define"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + define",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + define",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overdefines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefined",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overdefined",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overdefine (third-person singular simple present overdefines, present participle overdefining, simple past and past participle overdefined)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "overdefinition"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with over-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Charles Reid, Painting Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid",
          "text": "Most students want to overdefine every flower and leaf. In the assignment above, I spoke of “the essence of flowers.” If you overdefine and explain every petal, you will lose the sense of softness and mystery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Walter N. King, Hamlet's Search for Meaning, page 133",
          "text": "The adolescent search for a new and a reliable identity can perhaps best be seen in the persistent endeavor to define, to overdefine, and to redefine oneself and each other in often ruthless comparison […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To define too rigidly, or in too much depth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "define",
          "define"
        ],
        [
          "rigid",
          "rigid"
        ],
        [
          "depth",
          "depth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To define too rigidly, or in too much depth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overdefine"
}