overtalkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overtalk (三人称単数 現在形 overtalks, 現在分詞 overtalking, 過去形および過去分詞形 overtalked)

1. (intransitive) To talk too much.
2. (transitive) To overcome or persuade by talking; talk over.
3. (transitive) To overstate; overexaggerate; talk up to seem greater than what is actual.
   • 1889, William Henry Harrison Murray, The story that the keg told me and The story of the man who didn't

     […] and he panted like a young faan in her fust race with the hounds, for he was overtalkin' his strength, and I feered he would die for sartin ef he didn't fetch up a bit and git rested; […]

名詞

overtalk (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 overtalks)

1. Excessive talking.
2. Simultaneous speech or talk which drowns out all other speakers.

反意語

• undertalk

アナグラム

• talk over, talkover