overquery

English

Etymology

over- +‎ query

Verb

overquery (third-person singular simple present overqueries, present participle overquerying, simple past and past participle overqueried)

1. To ask too many questions.
   • 1991, American Society for Microbiology, ASM style manual for journals and books, volume 1985, page 4:

     Try not to overquery; resolve as many problems as you can, but query if there is any possibility that you have changed the meaning.

   • 2016, Jessica R. Gurley, Essentials of Rorschach Assessment: Comprehensive System and R-PAS:

     Beginning Rorschach examiners have a tendency to overquery. Believing that they need to see the response exactly as the examinee saw it, they continue to query until they can see the response the same way or until the examinee is unable to provide additional information.