Overheat
/ˌoʊvɚˈhit/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A condition of being overheated.
"Continued operation with an overheat could lead to other serious problems, perhaps even a fire."
Verb
- 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 get excessively and undesirably hot wordnet
- 3 To become excessively hot. intransitive
- 4 make excessively or undesirably hot wordnet
- 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."
Example
More examples"The engine's starting to overheat."
Etymology
From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.