An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OVERDONE
overdone
(adjective) cooked too long but still edible
exaggerated, overdone, overstated
(adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable; “an exaggerated opinion of oneself”
OVERDO
overdo, exaggerate
(verb) do something to an excessive degree; “He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
overdone (comparative more overdone, superlative most overdone)
Cooked too much.
Exaggerated.
Repeated too often; hackneyed.
Verb
overdone
past participle of overdo
Anagrams
• done over
Source: Wiktionary
OVERDO
O`ver*do", v. t. [imp. Overdid; p. p. Overdone; p. pr. & vb. n. Overdoing.]
1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak.
2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
3. To surpass; to excel. [R.] Tennyson.
4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
O`ver*do", v. i.
Definition: To labor too hard; to do too much.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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