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overheats

overheats is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Overheats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overheat.

Words near overheats in the dictionary

  1. overheatedness
  2. overheater
  3. overheaters
  4. overheating
  5. overheatings
  6. overheats
  7. overheave
  8. overheaves
  9. overheavily
  10. overheaviness
  11. overheavy

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