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Overheat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To heat too much.

v. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated.

verb-intransitive. To become too hot or very excited.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To heat excessively

v. To become excessively hot

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To heat to excess; to superheat.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To heat to excess.

n. Excessive heat.

n. Sunstroke.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. get excessively and undesirably hot

v. make excessively or undesirably hot

Word Usage

"As Singapore's prime minister recently pointed out, if foreign workers are not allowed in, the economy will "overheat" - when productive capacity is unable to keep pace with growing demand and growth occurs at an unsustainable rate."

Verb Form

overheated overheating overheats

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

heat up hot up heat

Form

overheater

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

superheat

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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