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to overdraw

to overdraw

1 5.4
Withdraw more money from an account than is available
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈdrɔː/
translation icon : sobregirar
  • I'm not sending ten envelopes with checks to various companies, trying to time them correctly so I don't overdraw my checking account.
  • overdraw the account
  • overdraw a check
  • fee if you overdraw

Examples

  • That experience blew my sanity points for today, which means I am not overdrawing my account over at Jezebel.

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  • You can overdraw your energetic bank accounts and continue to see patients.

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  • This also means that I can overdraw here.

  • Right, but then that hold made me overdraw.

    Problemista (2024)

  • Also, as soon as you overdraw your account one time, you get immediately locked into a vicious cycle whereby other checks will bounce; every single bounce costs $40, and before you know it, you owe the bank $300.

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  • I already spread my wealth around. If these morons in Congress and running for office want to spread the wealth around, let them pull out their checkbooks and donate to the U.S. Treasury if they are not too stupid to overdraw their accounts.

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  • At that time, he was in charge of the checking account, and we were constantly overdrawing the account because he doesn't believe in balancing the checkbook.

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  • If, on the other hand, I overdraw my account, then they stop reading my email.

  • But consumers say it's still far too easy to overdraw their accounts.

  • It's possible to overdraw accounts via online bill payments or automatic payments for utilities and other bills.

Antonyms

deposit
235 3.3

Money paid in advance to hold or secure something

Surface Forms

overdraw infinitive
overdrawing present participle
overdraws third person singular
overdrew past
overdrawn past participle

Morphology

overdraw = draw (transparent) = over + draw

Standard productive prefixation: 'over' (too much) + 'draw' (withdraw) yields the clear banking sense 'withdraw too much'.

Etymology

Overdraw is made of over- 'too much' and draw 'to take out', as in withdraw. So to overdraw your bank account is to take out more money than you have, making the balance go below zero.