To overshare is to tell people more about yourself than is appropriate: details of an argument, your health or your love life to someone you've met twice. It happens in conversation and online: she deleted the post because she felt she'd overshared. It's informal; neutrally, share too much personal information.
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overshare online / at work; overshare about something; stop oversharing
- I started explaining every detail of the family argument and realized I was oversharing.
- He sometimes overshares when he meets people for the first time.
- She deleted the long caption because she felt she had overshared.
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First versionSorry for overshare.
RevisionSorry for oversharing.
Overshare looks like it could be a noun, like share in a fair share, so “sorry for overshare” seems fine. But overshare is a verb, and after for you need the -ing form: sorry for oversharing. Even shorter: sorry, TMI.
Talk too much means chatting too much about anything, even bikes. Overshare is specifically about personal things. Being open is honesty that fits close friends; oversharing is the same honesty with the wrong person.
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I realized I was ___ when I started telling a stranger about my medical tests.
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oversharing — Telling a stranger about your medical tests is too much personal information, which is oversharing. Overreacting means reacting too strongly, but here the person is simply saying too much.
Describe a moment when someone realised they had said too much about themselves. Use overshared or oversharing.
I realized I was oversharing when my introduction turned into a long account of a family disagreement.
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