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overdrive meaning in Nepali

ओभरड्राइभ गर्न

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɹaɪv/

overdrive in Nepali: ओभरड्राइभ गर्न, ओभरड्राइभ गर्ने. In English, overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Nepali words for overdrive

ओभरड्राइभ गर्न, ओभरड्राइभ गर्ने

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 Nepali

What is the meaning of overdrive in Nepali?
Overdrive in Nepali is ओभरड्राइभ गर्न, ओभरड्राइभ गर्ने.
overdrive को नेपाली अर्थ के हो?
Overdrive: ओभरड्राइभ गर्न, ओभरड्राइभ गर्ने.
What does overdrive mean in English?
Overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Source and license

Nepali 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 Nepali words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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