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Definition of Overcolor
1. v. t. To color too highly.
Definition of Overcolor
1. Verb. (transitive) (alternative spelling of overcolour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcolor
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcolor
Literary usage of Overcolor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"If you think I overcolor this matter of the young girl's book, hear this, which
there are others, as I just said, besides myself, will tell you is strictly ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... there were reddish and whitish settlings, lack of color and overcolor, strong
smell and no smell, it was too clear, too thick, too copious, too scanty, ..."