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noun

• the revealing of information that is overly intimate.

  The detailed description of her childbirth was a definite overshare.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  
  Citation from "Lady Gaga's Topless Birthday Treat", E! Online, Lia Haberman, Mar 30 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Apr 07 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Apr 03 2010.

verb

• to reveal information that is overly intimate.

  Alcohol tends to make me overshare.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  
  Citation from "Madman, Perhaps; Survivor, Definitely", The New York Times, Manohola Dargis, April 7 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Apr 07 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Apr 03 2010.

verb

• to understand something so completely that one "over"-stands.

  I overstand the situation, my friend.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to understand.

  Last edited on Dec 27 2002. Submitted by Rudy from Toronto, ON, Canada on Dec 27 2002.

• Overstand is a word used by the Rastafarians of the Caribbean Islands in place of the word understand; they also shorten the word and say "overs"

  Last edited on Jan 07 2011. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 07 2011.