overread
To read over, or peruse.
obsolete
Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].
To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
To read too much or excessively.
Where it comes from
From Middle English overreden, from Old English oferrǣdan (“to read over; read through; consider”), equivalent to over- + read.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry overread (CC BY-SA 4.0).