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overheat

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A condition of being overheated. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To heat excessively 2 (context intransitive English) To become excessively hot

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN economy ▪ The second is that the spending increase leads to the economy overheating and thus forces interest rates up. ▪ Stock and bond investors have been wary for months that the economy would overheat and prompt the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make too hot" (transitive), late 14c., from over- + heat (v.). Intransitive sense "to become too hot" is from 1902, originally in reference to motor engines. Related: Overheated ; overheating .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overheat \O`ver*heat"\, v. t. [Cf. Superheat .] To heat to excess; to superheat. --Cowper.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. get excessively and undesirably hot; "The car engines overheated" make excessively or undesirably hot; "The room was overheated"

Usage examples of overheat.

Somewhere, Brooke decided, there had to be an overheated cloning machine given over to producing tight, almost jet-black curls, rosebud mouths and big, luminous blue eyes with lashes any grown woman would kill for.

Once Burl had gotten used to the odd visual effect, which was like gazing into the twisting heat rays rising from an overheated oven, he saw that there was a small flat region between the mountains.

His mind was going and going, outracing the car, running on ahead of his thoughts, fibrillating like a bad heart until suddenly it stopped, dead still, conjectural operations ceased, and a clear bracing coldness descended through his overheated body in one long slow continuous wave.

When it got unbearable she went to overheated patisseries where overpainted ladies took off their furs, arranged their large bosoms and stared at her.

The forest was steeped in a steam from overheat, overmoisture, overgrowth.

The Presence Chamber was crowded with courtiers, and the warm summer air was heavy with the odours of musky perfume, burning wax and overdressed, trussed and overheated bodies.

It took only the merest touch to make her thighs fall wide open, a soft hiss of anticipation escaping her lips as she exposed the sopping, overheated vulva with its turgescent labia gaping slackly and the clitoris, thickened and standing proud - aching for stimulation.

A Lilido or an unshielded Moke would soon overheat here, but Checkers were equipped for travel anywhere.

Ground speed was up to 32 MPH, overheat warnings from the Clydesdales and the pumps flashing.

But it was a dying world, overheated by its sun, the life-forms restricted to the fringes of a desert continent.

She was simply overheated in the sun, frightened by the vomiting, and maybe overexcited, mostly because of your excitement.

Spanish Tragedy, of which Andronicus is an overheated feeble Romanish imitation.

His main danger was overheating in the unfiltered sunlight of the high air, but his body had a number of mechanisms to compensate, including the capacity to vary the flow of blood in his tremendous wings, and air sacs placed in his body that enabled his internal organs to lose heat.

These ailments are most common in summertime and may be caused by sudden changes of diet, unaccustomed foods, chills in the stomach following bodily overheating, exposure to hot sunshine etc.