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over-heat

over-heat is the alternative form of overheat.

Meaning of overheat

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To heat excessively.
    • 'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 131
  2. (intransitive) To become excessively hot.
  3. To grow too quickly in an uncontrolled way.
    • Dalio said that the Chinese economy was in danger of overheating, and somebody asked how a Chinese slowdown would affect the price of oil and other commodities.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN

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Forms of over-heat

third-person singular presentover-heats
present participleover-heating
pastover-heat
pastover-heated
past participleover-heated

Questions about over-heat

What is over-heat the alternative form of?
Over-heat is the alternative form of overheat.

Words near over-heat in the dictionary

  1. over-greedy
  2. over-hand
  3. over-handed
  4. over-handing
  5. over-hands
  6. over-heat
  7. over-heated
  8. over-heating
  9. over-heats
  10. over-hedging
  11. over-hire

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