Sentence:  Freud perhaps <WSD>overhailed</WSD> the book by calling Dostoevsky's masterpiece the greatest Western novel, but it strongly contends with Cervantes, Tolstoy, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Mann, Lawrence, or anyone else. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To praise too much.