overrespond

Etymology

From over- + respond.

overrespond means to respond excessively. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To respond excessively.“The impulse behind purple prose, he wrote, “is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened by something intolerably vivid.””