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Misuse one's checking account
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overdraw
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Word definitions for overdraw in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to draw across;" 1734 in the banking sense, from over- + draw (v.). Related: Overdrawn ; overdrawing .
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her account" to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate , exaggerate , hyperbolize , hyerbolise , magnify , amplify ...
Usage examples of overdraw.
Is there less sin among us modern men, or did such writers as John Bunyan overdraw and exaggerate the sinfulness of sin?
For the first time in his life he was obliged to overdraw his account at the bank, and when his wife questioned him about his troubles he became angry and vicious.
Perhaps it was that he had some mad hope of persuading the bank manager to allow him to overdraw to that amount.
I have no desire to overdraw his qualities, but if there was one thing in him more noticeable than another, it was his fondness for nature.
And she, who is generous and good, has arranged to overdraw yet another two hundred pounds for him.
In order to remain as happy as this for a century or so, all that a child has to do is to invest his vitality on sound business principles, and never overdraw or borrow.
In his correspondence with Goethe it is exasperating to observe that these great poets kept so little reserve vim in stock that a slight change of temperature or humidity, or even a dark day, was enough to overdraw their health account and bankrupt their work.
Lance allowed his family and relatives to overdraw checking accounts at a bank he headed by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I wanted to warn him that Alice Bashford was not an ordinary widow, who vexes officers of trust companies with foolish questions and is prone to overdraw her account, so I left when he did.
Congress exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us, pass their midnight pay raises, overdraw their accounts at the House Bank, and then take a junket to some exotic Caribbean island with some lobbyists.
One of these was that no one of the directors could at any time, or under any circumstances, overdraw his account at the bank.
At the moment the scene outside was a somewhat overdrawn picture of utter desolation.
Fifty-five major abusers were overdrawn so consistently as to make it clear that they were deliberately availing themselves of their ability to obtain a permanent no-interest loan.
There was also a very large amount of overdrawn balances due from customers.
So Stan had paid off the debts of his newly acquired business by overdrawing his bank account.