overread

verb

1. (obsolete)To read over, or peruse.

   “Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].”

2. (ambitransitive)To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.

   “To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.”

   “At the same time, we overread. That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.”

   “Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world?”

3. To read too much or excessively.

adj

1. Having read too much.