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overdrive meaning in Hindi

ओवरड्राइव करना

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɹaɪv/

overdrive in Hindi: ओवरड्राइव करना, ओवरड्राइव करें. In English, overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Hindi words for overdrive

ओवरड्राइव करना, ओवरड्राइव करें

English meaning of overdrive

  1. verb To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
  2. noun A gear, on an automobile, higher than the traditional top gear, mainly to allow better fuel economy at highway speeds. In the 21st century, such gears are no longer viewed as "extra" and thus rarely called by this name.
  3. noun A state of heightened activity.
  4. noun Freewheeling (driving a vehicle with the transmission in neutral) on downhill stretches to achieve higher fuel economy and/or speed than otherwise. In colloquial registers, ethnically bigoted variants have been common, such as Jewish overdrive (alluding to the stereotype of miserly Jews) or Mexican overdrive or Polish overdrive (alluding to stereotypes of foolishness and poverty).

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overdrive in a sentence

  • Near-synonym: top gear
  • In the 1970s, many transmission designs were revised to add an overdrive gear.
  • The campaign has been in overdrive since the recent announcement.

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Questions about overdrive in Hindi

What is the meaning of overdrive in Hindi?
Overdrive in Hindi is ओवरड्राइव करना, ओवरड्राइव करें.
overdrive का हिंदी में क्या अर्थ है?
Overdrive: ओवरड्राइव करना, ओवरड्राइव करें.
What does overdrive mean in English?
Overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Source and license

Hindi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “overdrive”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: overdrive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Hindi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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