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OVERDO
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected forms: overdid , overdone
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overdo ... he / she / it overdoes
Past simple: overdid
Past participle: overdone
-ing form: overdoing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Do something to an excessive degree
Example:
He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups
Synonyms:
exaggerate; overdo
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "overdo" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overdo"):
overpraise (praise excessively)
oversimplify (simplify to an excessive degree)
overleap (defeat (oneself) by going too far)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something