All overdo synonyms
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O o verb overdo
- overcook β Cook too much or for too long.
- char β If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- stew β to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- burn β If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- exaggerate β Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- overplay β to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overemphasize β to emphasize excessively.
- overstate β to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overestimate β to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- overrate β to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.
- overreach β to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overuse β to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- overvalue β to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- amplify β If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- belabour β If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- belabor β If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- fatigue β weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- hype β to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- magnify β to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- overburden β to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overindulge β eat, do to excess
- overload β to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overtax β to tax too heavily.
- overtire β to make or become too tired
- overwork β to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
- pressure β the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- puff β a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
- stretch β to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- go overboard β over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- go too far β take sth past acceptable limits
- lay it on β to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- pile on β heap
- run into the ground β to do too long or too often; overdo
- run riot β a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- talk big β to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- wear down β to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.