overrefine

English Thesaurus

1. refine too much or with excess of subtlety (verb.change)

hypernym	:	down, fine-tune, polish, refine,
definition	:	improve or perfect by pruning or polishing (verb.change)

derivation	:	distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting,
definition	:	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean (noun.act)

derivation	:	distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting,
definition	:	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean (noun.act)