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单词 overtell
释义 overˈtell, v.
[over- 26, 16.]
1. trans. To tell (count, or narrate) in excess of the fact; to exaggerate in reckoning or narration.
1511in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 3 Thomas Foster dyd overtell hymselfe in the gȝyld hall xxti voyces.1755T. Amory Mem. (1766) II. 98 There may be some things overtold,..that would bear mitigation.
2. To count over. Obs.
c1610Rowlands Terrible Battell 11 We came vnto a Marchant in this towne That mighty bags of money ouer-tels.
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