Wiktionary
a. 1 drive too hard; exhausted 2 (context music English) Characteristic of overdrive
WordNet
n. the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration; "Troops are ready to go into overdrive as soon as the signal is given"; "Melissa's brain was in overdrive"
a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power
v. drive or work too hard; "The teacher is overworking his students"; "Overdriving people often suffer stress"
make use of too often or too extensively [syn: overuse]
[also: overdrove, overdriven]
See overdrive
Usage examples of "overdriven".
All six were dressed identically to Vastor, and each bore those twin teardrop shields that snarled like overdriven comm speakers.
The sound, overdriven and chorused, was massive, but the melodic lines were clean, separate, and perfectly balanced.
The chords she summoned were thick, ferrous, gritty with the crunch of overdriven guitar, fluid with pulsing waveforms.
The idea of returning to enter into daily competition with other underpaid, overdriven drudges striving fruitlessly to apply a dilute coating of culture to the unresponsive surface of unwilling students was abhorrent.
And though he hated to see even a dumb horse overdriven, he was of course thinking more about the murder of the Trees.
I knew something of Howard Hugheshis physical courage, the curious overdriven masculinity of his films, the fear of disease that would deliver him, at the end of his life, to the wrong side of a sterile cell door.
Some there were among them, however, who, feeling perhaps a hint of rebellion upon the part of overdriven muscles, cut switches from ready mesquite and lashed recalcitrant legs until they bled, scarifying them to renewed life and vitality.
If she could have smashed the peace of that room with the sound of an overdriven amp, she would have done it gladly.
There was now, Amalfi knew, no longer than fifteen minutes before the overdriven friction-field would begin to have more serious effects.
It was audible, squawky with the rattles of the overdriven earphones in his comm-helmet.
It is distressing to think of all the sums now devoted to inducing callow, overdriven sophomores to compose forced essays and doggerel, by luring them on with the glitter of cash prizes.
The thought jolted her like a broom handle thrust into the overdriven machinery of her mind.
Their shielding fields blazed white, their refractories wavered in the high blue as the overdriven refrigerators strove mightily to cope with the terrific load.