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Overheat

//ˌoʊvɚˈhit// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A condition of being overheated.

    "Continued operation with an overheat could lead to other serious problems, perhaps even a fire."

Verb
  1. 1
    To heat excessively. transitive

    "'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'."

  2. 2
    get excessively and undesirably hot wordnet
  3. 3
    To become excessively hot. intransitive
  4. 4
    make excessively or undesirably hot wordnet
  5. 5
    To grow too quickly in an uncontrolled way.

    "Dalio said that the Chinese economy was in danger of overheating, and somebody asked how a Chinese slowdown would affect the price of oil and other commodities."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.

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