Overheat

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  • intransitive verb. To heat too much.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated.
  • intransitive verb. To become too hot or very excited.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To heat to excess.
  • noun. Excessive heat.
  • noun. Sunstroke.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To heat to excess; to superheat.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To heat excessively
  • verb. To become excessively hot
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  • verb. get excessively and undesirably hot
  • verb. make excessively or undesirably hot
    • Word Usage
    "As Singapore's prime minister recently pointed out, if foreign workers are not allowed in, the economy will "overheat" - when productive capacity is unable to keep pace with growing demand and growth occurs at an unsustainable rate."
    Form
    overheater  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    heat  heat up  hot up  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    superheat  
    verb-form
    overheated  overheating  overheats  
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