"overtranslate" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "over- + translate",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + translate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overtranslates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "overtranslate (third-person singular simple present overtranslates, present participle overtranslating, simple past and past participle overtranslated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 8",
          "text": "When we select too-specific a rendering, we overtranslate, and, thus, risk adding information which may not be true.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Yunker, The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation, Byte Level Books, page 86",
          "text": "Translate the gateway, but don't overtranslate",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge University Press, page 179",
          "text": "To overtranslate: 'as far as my having slaves is concerned, I have – none'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are."
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        [
          "translate",
          "translate"
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  "word": "overtranslate"
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        "2": "over",
        "3": "translate"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + translate",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + translate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overtranslates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overtranslated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "overtranslate (third-person singular simple present overtranslates, present participle overtranslating, simple past and past participle overtranslated)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 8",
          "text": "When we select too-specific a rendering, we overtranslate, and, thus, risk adding information which may not be true.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Yunker, The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation, Byte Level Books, page 86",
          "text": "Translate the gateway, but don't overtranslate",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge University Press, page 179",
          "text": "To overtranslate: 'as far as my having slaves is concerned, I have – none'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "translate",
          "translate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overtranslate"
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