overpicture
English
Verb
overpicture (third-person singular simple present overpictures, present participle overpicturing, simple past and past participle overpictured)
- (transitive, obsolete) To surpass nature in the picture or representation of; describe or portray with exaggeration.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- O'er-picturing that Venus
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