1. to document something excessively or with more detail, evidence, or paperwork than is necessary or practical
Usage: transitive verb; often used in professional, academic, or bureaucratic contexts

Examples

• The company tends to overdocument every decision, creating mountains of paperwork that few people read.
• Teachers sometimes overdocument student progress, spending more time on forms than actual instruction.
• The legal team overdocumented the case, submitting thousands of pages when hundreds would have sufficed.
• Researchers warned against overdocumenting minor findings, as it dilutes the impact of significant results.
• The project manager overdocumented the workflow, making the process more cumbersome than helpful.