overcolour

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overcolour

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From over- + colour.

verb overcolours · overcolouring · overcoloured · overcolor

  1. figuratively, transitive To exaggerate. But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.

noun overcolours · overcolor

  1. Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect.

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@misc{overcolour_2026,
  title = {overcolour},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overcolour},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}