overannotate

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ annotate.

Verb

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overannotate (third-person singular simple present overannotates, present participle overannotating, simple past and past participle overannotated)

  1. To add too many annotations.
    • 1992, Jeffrey P. Mass, Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History, →ISBN, page 155:
      In most instances, a majority of the notes will be focused here, since one can never overannotate in the area of fundamental meaning.
    • 2008, Angela Szczepaniak, Unisex love poems, page 22:
      Care must be taken not to overannotate.
    • 2015, Kelly Gallagher, In the Best Interest of Students, →ISBN:
      I do tell them that if they overannotate they will kill the book, and that if they underannotate they will not get to levels of deeper reading.