Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overread
Participle: overreaded
Gerund: overreading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overread |
| you | overread |
| he;she;it | overreads |
| we | overread |
| you | overread |
| they | overread |
Perfect
| I | have overreaded |
| you | have overreaded |
| he;she;it | has overreaded |
| we | have overreaded |
| you | have overreaded |
| they | have overreaded |
Past
| I | overreaded |
| you | overreaded |
| he;she;it | overreaded |
| we | overreaded |
| you | overreaded |
| they | overreaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had overreaded |
| you | had overreaded |
| he;she;it | had overreaded |
| we | had overreaded |
| you | had overreaded |
| they | had overreaded |
Future
| I | will overread |
| you | will overread |
| he;she;it | will overread |
| we | will overread |
| you | will overread |
| they | will overread |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overreaded |
| you | will have overreaded |
| he;she;it | will have overreaded |
| we | will have overreaded |
| you | will have overreaded |
| they | will have overreaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overread |
| you | overread |
| he;she;it | overread |
| we | overread |
| you | overread |
| they | overread |
Perfect
| I | have overreaded |
| you | have overreaded |
| he;she;it | have overreaded |
| we | have overreaded |
| you | have overreaded |
| they | have overreaded |
Imperfect
| I | overreaded |
| you | overreaded |
| he;she;it | overreaded |
| we | overreaded |
| you | overreaded |
| they | overreaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had overreaded |
| you | had overreaded |
| he;she;it | had overreaded |
| we | had overreaded |
| you | had overreaded |
| they | had overreaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overread |
| you | would overread |
| he;she;it | would overread |
| we | would overread |
| you | would overread |
| they | would overread |
Perfect
| I | would have overreaded |
| you | would have overreaded |
| he;she;it | would have overreaded |
| we | would have overreaded |
| you | would have overreaded |
| they | would have overreaded |
Imperative
| you | overread |
| we | Let's overread |
| you | overread |
Verbs conjugated like 'overread'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overread'
overlead,
overred,
overtread,
overbear,
overbend,
overbreed,
overdeal,
overdream,
overeat,
overfear,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English overreden, from Old English oferrǣdan (“to read over; read through; consider”), equivalent to over- + read.
Sample Sentences
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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 […]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones. [2005, Hilde Heynen, Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity:]
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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. [2008, H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative:]
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Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world? [2009 January 20, Heather Timmons, Jeremy Kahn, “Past Graft Is Tainting New India”, in New York Times:]