What does Overheat mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. overheatverb

    get excessively and undesirably hot

    "The car engines overheated"

  2. overheatverb

    make excessively or undesirably hot

    "The room was overheated"

Wiktionary

  1. overheatverb

    To heat excessively

  2. overheatverb

    To become excessively hot

ChatGPT

  1. overheat

    Overheat is a term used to describe a situation where a device, machine, or system becomes excessively hot, usually due to prolonged or intense operation. This excessive heat can potentially lead to damage or failure of the device, machine, or system. It can also refer to becoming too hot from exertion or high temperature.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Overheat

    ō-vėr-hēt′, v.t. to heat to excess.—n. O′verheat, extreme heat.

Editors Contribution

  1. overheatverb

    To make (food) for a long time or for too much; overcook.

    I accidentally overheated the pizza.


    Submitted by zakaria1409 on June 29, 2022  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Overheat in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Overheat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Overheat in a Sentence

  1. Janet Yellen:

    It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn't overheat.

  2. Richard Clarida:

    Our baseline is that we don’t overheat.

  3. Janet Yellen:

    It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn’t overheat, even though the additional spending is relatively small relative to the size of the economy, it could cause some very modest increases in interest rates to get that reallocation, but these are investments our economy needs to be competitive and to be productive (and) I think that our economy will grow faster because of them.

  4. David Kelly:

    The danger with one-party government going into 2021 is we'd potentially overheat the economy, it's very easy to hit the accelerator( on stimulus). But the question is whether the car would have any brakes.

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