Exert to excess

Usage examples of overdo.

Her own clothes she wore hidden underneath that lot, though she had taken care not to overdo the padding.

Cardozo said, and lifted the remnants of a bale of cloth with a gesture of exuberance, but he overdid it and the end of the bale knocked a glass of coffee over, spilling the foaming liquid into the tin till which de Gier was about to close, having counted its contents.

I told her she was overdoing it: she smelled like the perfume room in Harrods.

Her head buried against his chest, she tried to mentally explain to her heart that two hundred beats a minute was probably overdoing it, when Tim put her back on her feet, held her loosely locked inside his arms.

I had seen her she had been clad in a thin layer of transparent soap bubbles I thought that this was overdoing it a little.

Father Gennady was hard of hearing and always demanded that prayers should be read loudly and clearly, but even he thought the monitor was overdoing it that day.

She knew he was not feeling well, but she could not help thinking that he was overdoing it a bit.

It gained Fritz Leiber a Hugo as the best science-fiction novel of 1958 and catapulted him right back into the limelight, but then he decided that satire was being overdone and he would try farce.

The escapism was overdone, but it was largely accomplished in concert with other children, with Bloch showing signs of leadership.

Even overdone, most of the breakfast was good, but he hated eating the prickle slices.

Mary Catherine thought it a bit overdone if it meant that she must make the trip alone with Con.

The cheese was overdone, almost black instead of a rich golden brown, the edges curled and dry.

He or his dentist had obviously overdone the bleach job, and his artificially tanned face only made his teeth more prominent.

It was a tactic Eurocops often employed against Yanks, that overdone, unfamiliar politesse, but she had faced it before, rather enjoyed the brittle game of it.

It looked trashily overdone under the harsh fluorescent lighting, but features tended to disappear beneath the stage lights in ordinary street makeup.