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OVERDO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: overdid    , overdone   

 I. (verb) 

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...):

do; make (engage in)

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

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