Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To do, use, or stress to excess; carry (something) too far.
- intransitive verb To exaggerate.
- intransitive verb To wear out the strength of; overtax.
- intransitive verb To cook (food) too long.
- intransitive verb To do too much; go to extremes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To do to excess; hence, to overact; exaggerate.
- To carry beyond the proper limit; carry, prosecute, etc., too far.
- To cook too much: as, the roast is overdone.
- To fatigue or harass by too much action or labor: usually reflexive or followed by it.
- To surpass or exceed in performance.
- To do too much; labor too hard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To labor too hard; to do too much.
- transitive verb To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
- transitive verb To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust.
- transitive verb rare To surpass; to excel.
- transitive verb To cook too much.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To do too much of something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb do something to an excessive degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, many experts in the U.S. say we're kind of overdo, actually, forgetting one of these.
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Chinese new year, which is characterised by the zodiac sign Tiger, some economists expect the Chinese assets, but should not "overdo" it as the country tries to adjust the
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There is constant criticism of its exchange-rate regime and unfair export advantages, and warnings about the By ALEX FRANGOS In a sign of the rapidly improving economic fortunes across assets, but should not "overdo" it as the country tries to adjust the China sold a record amount of US debt, raising speculation it is turning
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Indeed, my judgment is, that (in this case particularly) to overdo is to undo and that to set perfection too high (so high as no man that we ever heard or read of attained) is the most effectual (because unsuspected) way of driving it out of the world. "
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'overdo' herself, and rather than that should happen he desired her to let the business go to the -- ahem!
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I continued to tease, tattle, forget, overdo, throw tantrums, and do everything that those books told me not to do.
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She has resisted all temptations to overdo and overplay, despite the openings that Jackie's addictions and infidelities have offered.
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