oversell

From over- +‎ sell.

• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊ.vɚ.sɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

oversell (third-person singular simple present oversells, present participle overselling, simple past and past participle oversold)

1. (transitive) To agree to sell more of something than one can supply.
2. (transitive) To be too eager in attempting to sell something.
3. (transitive) To praise something to excess.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price.
   • 1617, John Fletcher, “The Chances”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     One whose beauty / Would oversell all Italy

• overpromise
• sell past the close

• Voellers, verolles