OVERHEAT

overheat

(verb) get excessively and undesirably hot; “The car engines overheated”

overheat

(verb) make excessively or undesirably hot; “The room was overheated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

overheat (third-person singular simple present overheats, present participle overheating, simple past and past participle overheated)

(transitive) To heat excessively.

(intransitive) To become excessively hot.

Noun

overheat (plural overheats)

A condition of being overheated.

Anagrams

• overhate

Source: Wiktionary


O`ver*heat", v. t. Etym: [Cf. Superheat.]

Definition: To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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