overheat
Americanverb (used with object)
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to heat to excess.
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to excite or agitate; make vehement.
a crowd overheated by rabble-rousers.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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to make or become excessively hot
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(tr; often passive) to make very agitated, irritated, etc
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(intr) (of an economy) to tend towards inflation, often as a result of excessive growth in demand
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(tr) to cause (an economy) to tend towards inflation
noun
Etymology
Origin of overheat
First recorded in 1350–1400, overheat is from the Middle English word overheten. See over-, heat
Example Sentences
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A student from Hurlford, she then went down a rabbit hole looking at the amount of water that would be needed for coolant, the process which stops the computer chips there from overheating.
From BBC
And to keep servers from overheating, they will place new pressure on often-stretched local water supplies.
From Barron's
Still, Matejka and team find no evidence of overheating or increasing inflationary pressures.
From MarketWatch
Grantham’s latest bearish case is that U.S. stocks could be sabotaged this year by an overheated IPO market.
From MarketWatch
An artist couldn’t have dreamed up a better monument to the hubris of overheated development in a city where so many remain unhoused.
From Los Angeles Times
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