HyperDic: overrefinement

English > 1 sense of the word overrefinement:
NOUNactoverrefinement, distortion, straining, torture, twistingthe act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
English > overrefinement: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningThe act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
Synonymsdistortion, straining, torture, twisting
Broaderfalsification, misrepresentationA willful perversion of facts
Spanishdeformación, distorsión, torcimiento, torsión
Catalandeformació
Verbsoverrefinerefine too much or with excess of subtlety

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