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overheated

[ US /ˈoʊvɝˌhitɪd/ ]
[ UK /ˌə‍ʊvəhˈiːtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. heated beyond a safe or desirable point
    overheated metal
    the child became overheated

How To Use overheated In A Sentence

  • You didn't mention what fumes were given off by the overheated coating, but I was told at the time that it was similar to mustard gas.
  • It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.
  • The company identified 25 property postcodes that have ‘overheated’ in the past few years and now faced a ten per cent drop.
  • We continue to believe that interest rates will head higher as a desperately overheated economy fuels unprecedented borrowing demands.
  • In overheated reactors, water can react with zirconium to produce hydrogen. Times, Sunday Times
  • The room was overheated
  • Despite spots of tempering demand, global growth is accelerating and the US economy remains desperately overheated.
  • The spokesman said preliminary investigations showed that overheated wires in a heater element, and an overloaded thermostat, may have been the cause.
  • Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
  • Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
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