overread

1. (obsolete) To read over, or peruse.Examples: "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 […]."obsolete

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