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

overcoated
overcoating
overcoatless
overcoats
overcoddle
overcoddled
overcoddles
overcoddling
overcold
overcollateralize
overcollateralized
overcollateralizes
overcollateralizing
overcollection
overcollections
overcolor (current term)
overcolored
overcoloring
overcolors
overcolour
overcome
overcomer
overcomers
overcomes
overcomest
overcometh
overcoming
overcomingly
overcomings
overcommercialization

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, ..."

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