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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overheat
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 Fed to tighten.
▪ Ireland has already been rapped over the knuckles for cutting taxes just as its economy was overheating.
▪ Lifting economies out of recession is easy compared with deciding when to re-apply the brakes so the economy does not overheat later.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Critics say the economy overheated because of the recent tax cuts.
▪ If the fan doesn't work, the engine could overheat.
▪ The cooling system broke down, the nuclear reactor overheated, and the plant had to be evacuated.
▪ The engine started overheating and steam poured out of the front of the car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, it's vital not to overheat the liquid because it will curdle as well as lose its taste.
▪ If the wiring were overheating, it could have caused oxygen-generating canisters in the cargo hold to explode, he said.
▪ Last year, a limited number of PowerBooks were recalled because of an overheating problem.
▪ Sea breezes kept us from overheating and at the end of the day we chugged into Mombassa harbour.
▪ Stock and bond investors have been wary for months that the economy would overheat and prompt the Fed to tighten.
▪ The biggest danger for any stranded cetacean is overheating.
▪ The entire operation will use remote devices in the boron-rich water that keeps the reactor fuel from overheating.
▪ The oven had an open front to avoid overheating.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overheat

Overheat \O`ver*heat"\, v. t. [Cf. Superheat.] To heat to excess; to superheat.
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overheat

"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.

Wiktionary
overheat

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

WordNet
overheat

  1. v. get excessively and undesirably hot; "The car engines overheated"

  2. 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.

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.