OVERHEATING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Excessive heating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("overheating" is a kind of...):

heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overheating"):

meltdown; nuclear meltdown (severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping)

Derivation:

overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)

overheat (make excessively or undesirably hot)

-ing form of the verb overheat