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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



... dozen different places," Blake rejoined. "You overdo the thing, and the way Benson grins at your threadbare jokes would worry me if I were well. Do you suppose I'm a fool and don't know what you think?" He raised himself on his elbow, speaking angrily. "Try to understand that this is merely common malaria; I've had it several ...
— Blake's Burden • Harold Bindloss
... society. Jenny was grown a little more stout, and her cheek a little more ruddy, than it used to be; but the new country seemed not so well suited to Hobert, and the well-wishing neighbor often said when he met him, "You mustn't be too ambitious, and overdo! Your shoulders ain't so straight as they was when you come here! Be careful in time; nothing like that, Walker, nothing like that." And Hobert laughed at these suggestions, saying he was as strong as the rest of them; and that, though his cheek was pale, and his chest ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... French call love-making l'...... deux, and no egotism is agreeable. People who see a pair of young doves cooing in public are apt to say that a quarrel is not far off. It is possible for a lover to show every attention, every assiduity, and not to overdo his demonstrations. It is quite possible for the lady to be fond of her husband without committing the slightest ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... unkind," she said, careful not to overdo a sob. "You don't seem to understand what a terrible situation this is ...
— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller
... nowadays. From what I have read of the nineteenth century literature (and I have read a good deal), it is clear to me that this is a kind of revenge for the stupidity of that day, which despised everybody who could use his hands. But Dick, old fellow, Ne quid nimis! Don't overdo it!" ...
— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris


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