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🙊 To interrupt 🔊 Overlapping speech 🗣️ To dominate talk
to overtalk

to overtalk

1 6.7
To speak at the same time as someone else and make that person hard to hear
  • verb
  • /oʊvərˈtɔk/
: interrumpir
  • During the meeting, he would often overtalk his colleagues, making it hard for anyone else to contribute.

Examples

  • He tried to filibuster and overtalk her, but she just kept on with those pesky facts.

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  • She tends to overtalk whenever she gets excited, drowning out the opinions of others.

  • When discussing her ideas, she overtalks and interrupts, leaving little room for debate.

Synonyms

to shout over
vsto overtalk
1 4.0

Speak loudly so others can hear you above noise

is simultaneous speech that interrupts rather than only loud speaking
to overspeak
vsto overtalk
1 7.2

To speak at the same time as someone, cutting them off and making them hard to hear

is simultaneous but emphasizes making the other hard to hear

Antonyms

to listen
∞ 1.0

Pay attention to sounds or speech to hear and understand them

How Interruptive

to monopolize
  • US
21 6.7
to interrupt
796 2.5
to overtalk
1 6.7
to speak
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

overtalk infinitive
overtalked past
overtalked past participle
overtalking present participle
overtalks third person singular

Morphology

overtalk = talk (transparent) = over + talk

A straightforward prefixation of 'talk' by 'over' yielding the meaning 'speak over/interrupt; speak excessively'.

Etymology

To overtalk someone is to speak at the same time as them, making it hard for the other person to be heard. The parts over- ('on top of') and talk show you are putting your words 'on top of' theirs, which is why it interrupts them.