overdrive meaning in Tamil
மேற்செலுத்தல்
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɹaɪv/
overdrive in Tamil: மேற்செலுத்தல். In English, overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
Tamil words for overdrive
- மேற்செலுத்தல்
English meaning of overdrive
- verb To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
- 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.
- noun A state of heightened activity.
- 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).
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.
Synonyms of overdrive
overdrive in other languages
Questions about overdrive in Tamil
- What is the meaning of overdrive in Tamil?
- Overdrive in Tamil is மேற்செலுத்தல்.
- overdrive என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Overdrive: மேற்செலுத்தல்.
- What does overdrive mean in English?
- Overdrive means to drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
Source and license
Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: overdrive (page history and authors). 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 Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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