overheat
/ˌəʊvəˈhiːt/US/ˌoʊvɚˈhit/
overheat verb: to heat excessively.
Verb
overheat (third-person singular simple present overheats, present participle overheating, simple past and past participle overheated)
- 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
- To become excessively hot.
- 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
Noun
overheat (plural overheats)
- A condition of being overheated.
- Continued operation with an overheat could lead to other serious problems, perhaps even a fire.2002, Earl Rogers, Captain, page 245
overheat meaning in Kannada and Vietnamese
overheat in Kannada
- ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಾಯಿಸು, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿ ಕಾಯಿಸು
overheat in Vietnamese
- become excessively hot
- trở nên quá nóng
Forms of overheat
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overheats |
| present participle | overheating |
| past participle | overheated |
| past | overheated |
| Noun | |
| plural | overheats |
Origin of overheat
From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.
Words formed from overheat
Words that rhyme with overheat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
- keet
Questions about overheat
- What does overheat mean?
- Overheat means to heat excessively.
- What is overheat in Kannada?
- Overheat in Kannada is ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಾಯಿಸು, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿ ಕಾಯಿಸು. See Overheat meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is overheat?
- Overheat can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce overheat?
- Overheat is pronounced /ˌoʊvɚˈhit/ (US).
- What is the past tense of overheat?
- The past tense of overheat is overheated.
Words near overheat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overheat (page history and authors); overheat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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