overheated
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈhiːtɪd/
:
sobrecalentado
- During the heatwave, many people suffered from overheated homes and had to seek refuge in cooler places.
- overheated economy
Examples
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Restaurants shut down as overheated kitchens become unbearable.
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The car engine became overheated after driving for several hours without a break.
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It's a bit overheated, getting a bit hot.
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It's November 2006, a Saturday, in an overheated hospital conference room in Western Massachusetts.
Academic text (2009) -
The room where they made everyone sit was enormous, overheated, and had about three hundred blue plastic chairs.
Fiction book (1997) -
The crowd was tired, overheated, and close to fury over bad deals and inflated prices.
Fiction book (1996) -
My engine's overheated.
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You're snoring now in your overheated little studio apartment on Lexington Avenue.
Fiction book (2002) -
By the time they reached home, by way of a crowded, overheated train, Nula, Marie, and Melanie were exhausted.
Fiction book (1999) -
Scotty blamed it on the overheated bus, stinking of sausage biscuits, cheap perfume, and exhaust.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
3
3.4
Very hot and making a hissing sound
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3.4
Feels very hot, like you are inside an oven
Very hot and able to burn skin
Much hotter than usual for machines, rooms, or systems
Extremely hot, with a temperature much higher than normal
Very hot, like the heat inside an oven
Very hot, with high temperature or strong spice
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overheated comes from the prefix over- meaning 'too much' and heat meaning 'warm' or 'hot'. So overheated literally means 'too hot', which is why we use it for a person or engine that gets too hot and also for a debate that becomes too intense.