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- verb To
sing with too mucheffort orembellishment .
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Examples
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Although he picked a big Luther Vandross song, I was delighted that he didn't oversing it too badly.
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I don't have much to say either positive or negative, so I'll just cut to the chase: Naima is in the bottom three while Jacob lives to oversing another day.
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Listen good, contestants: Blake doesn't like singers who oversing.
The Voice Unveils the Top 16: Which Celebrity Coach Has the Best Roster? 2011
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Baritone Mark Walters tended to oversing, and mezzo Faith Sherman couldn't bring much life to the dull music of her songs.
An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann Heidi Waleson 2011
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Yesterday there was a splendid young tenor, Edgar Ramirez as the Ambassador, with a big, Italianate sound, brilliant top and no inclination to oversing or otherwise distort a very attractive lyric voice.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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One doesn't have to oversing there: The cathedral makes the sound bloom.
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One doesn't have to oversing there: The cathedral makes the sound bloom.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ No offence to artist, by lip sync i mean sound is out of sync lol, and ruin the anthem i mean that i don't like that she oversing that song.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ No offence to artist, by lip sync i mean sound is out of sync lol, and ruin the anthem i mean that i don't like that she oversing that song.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ No offence to artist, by lip sync i mean sound is out of sync lol, and ruin the anthem i mean that i don't like that she oversing that song.
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