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OVERREFINEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonyms:
distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("overrefinement" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)
Derivation:
overrefine (refine too much or with excess of subtlety)
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