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OVERHEAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get excessively and undesirably hot

Example:

The car engines overheated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "overheat" is one way to...):

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

overheating (excessive heating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make excessively or undesirably hot

Example:

The room was overheated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "overheat" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Cause:

overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

overheating (excessive heating)

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