"overdescribe" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From over- + describe.",
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          "ref": "1998, James V. Smith, You Can Write a Novel, →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "Never overdescribe your setting. Why run the risk of boring readers?",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Neil Landau, TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era, →ISBN:",
          "text": "We need to go through and edit our action lines; there's no need to overwrite them or overdescribe things.",
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        "To provide an overly detailed description."
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  "etymology_text": "From over- + describe.",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "overdescribing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "overdescribed",
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    },
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Neil Landau, TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era, →ISBN:",
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