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Overdo   /ˈoʊvərdˈu/   Listen
verb
Overdo  v. t.  (past overdid; past part. overdone; pres. part. overdoing)  
1.
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing."
2.
To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
3.
To surpass; to excel. (R.)
4.
To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.


Overdo  v. i.  (past overdid; past part. overdone; pres. part. overdoing)  To labor too hard; to do too much.





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"Overdo" Quotes from Famous Books



... spring. They're in that new red leather, and Aylestone says he finds his so useful. I dropped in at Wedderburn to-day to see if I could be of any help, and the poor man was buttonholed by two reporters who had come all the way from New York to see him. I hope he won't overdo it." ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... better than I can, but I sang plenty well enough for them, and if I hadn't been so mad at the way I've been treated I'd kept on. Now they can get on without me. Lucy Ayres does look miserable. There's consumption in her family, too. Well, it's good for her lungs to sing, if she don't overdo it. Good-bye, Sylvia." ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... always bear it in recollection. This aversion—the very antipodes to hypocrisy—leads men not only to disclaim the virtues they have, but to pretend to the vices they have not. Foolish trick of disguised vanity! the world, alas, readily believes them! Like Justice Overdo, in the garb of poor Arthur of Bradley, they may deem it a virtue to have assumed the disguise; but they must not wonder if the sham Arthur is taken for the real, beaten as a vagabond, and set in ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... more brandy." Mr. Jope pulled out and proffered a flask. "Only don't overdo it, or it'll make your hand shaky. . . . Serious? You may lay to it that Bill's serious. He's that set on the idea, it don't make no difference to him, as you may have noticed, Eli's mother not bein' alive to take pleasure in it. ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... can, at the same time, turn the hunt after the horses in the direction in which they are not to be found, if we can do so without exciting suspicions of our aims. Mark that! we must be cautious and not overdo the thing, or it will be worse for us than to ...
— Eveline Mandeville - The Horse Thief Rival • Alvin Addison


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