1. to assign too much meaning or significance to something; to read too much into something
Usage: transitive verb; commonly used in academic, literary, and everyday contexts

Examples

• Don't overinterpret his silence; he's just tired.
• Critics sometimes overinterpret the author's intentions in the novel.
• She tends to overinterpret every comment her boss makes.
• It's easy to overinterpret data without proper statistical analysis.
• I overinterpreted the text message and thought she was angry with me.
• Psychologists warn against overinterpreting dreams as having deep symbolic meaning.
• The team overinterpreted the initial market research and made incorrect assumptions.