English

Alternative forms

• overcolor

Verb

overcolour ‎(third-person singular simple present overcolours, present participle overcolouring, simple past and past participle overcoloured)

1. (transitive) To exaggerate.
   • 1922, Ronald McNeill, Ulster's Stand For Union:

     He never sought to gain or augment the confidence of his followers by concealing facts, minimising difficulties, or overcolouring expectations.

   • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage, Complete:

     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.