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OVERHEAT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does overheat mean?

• OVERHEAT (verb)
The verb OVERHEAT has 2 senses:

1. get excessively and undesirably hot
2. make excessively or undesirably hot

Familiarity information: OVERHEAT used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OVERHEAT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Get excessively and undesirably hot

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The car engines overheated

Hypernyms (to "overheat" is one way to...):

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

overheat ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Make excessively or undesirably hot

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The room was overheated

Hypernyms (to "overheat" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Cause:

overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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