Definitions

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  • verb To display emotion excessive for the situation.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ emote

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Examples

  • The young actors, some of them Korean pop stars, were directed to overemote and scream outrageously during their "Titanic" style dramatic disaster scenes, but that was fascinating too.

    Haeundae, The Drowned World sfmike 2009

  • The young actors, some of them Korean pop stars, were directed to overemote and scream outrageously during their "Titanic" style dramatic disaster scenes, but that was fascinating too.

    Archive 2009-09-01 sfmike 2009

  • Look, if I want to overemote, I'll do it myself, watching this irritatingly self-aggrandizing hooey.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Doyle 2010

  • Look, if I want to overemote, I'll do it myself, watching this irritatingly self-aggrandizing hooey.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Doyle 2010

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