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overconstruct ‎(三人称単数 現在形 overconstructs, 現在分詞 overconstructing, 過去形および過去分詞形 overconstructed)

1. (transitive) To place too great a construction upon; to exaggerate.
   • 1996, Veit Erlmann, Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa (page 119)

     The first is a caveat against the tendency to overconstruct a link between patterns of urban dwelling and cultural practices in South Africa.

   • 2012, Fritz Zwicky, Morphological Astronomy (page 26)

     Very often theorists are prone to overconstruct facts, that is to endow them with greater meaning than is warranted by the observations.

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