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overheated

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o·ver·heat  (vr-ht)
v. o·ver·heat·ed, o·ver·heat·ing, o·ver·heats
v.tr.
1. To heat too much.
2. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated.
v.intr.
To become too hot or very excited.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.overheated - heated beyond a safe or desirable point; "the child became overheated"; "overheated metal"
hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"

overheated
adjective angry, furious, incensed, enraged, pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), worked up, agitated, inflamed, impassioned, pissed off (taboo slang), irate, hot under the collar (informal), hot and bothered (informal), overexcited In America, overheated drivers have been known to shoot one another.
cool, collected, calm, composed, dispassionate, unfazed (informal), unruffled, unemotional, unexcited
Translations
overheated [ˌəʊvərˈhiːtɪd] adj
[room, building] → surchauffé(e)
[market] → en surchauffe
(= angry) [person] → irascible
overheated [ˌəʊvəˈhiːtɪd] adj (debate) → surriscaldato/a; (person, angry) → arrabbiato/a
overheated [ˌəʊvəˈhiːtɪd] adj (debate) → surriscaldato/a; (person, angry) → arrabbiato/a


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--On the city of the obtrusive, the brazen-faced, the pen-demagogues and tongue-demagogues, the overheated ambitious:--
Any overheated motor may of course "seize" without warning; but so many complaints have reached us of accidents similar to yours while shooting the Aurora that we are inclined to believe with Lavalle that the upper strata of the Aurora Borealis are practically one big electric "leak," and that the paralysis of your engines was due to complete magnetization of all metallic parts.
1542 he became overheated, fell into a fever, and died.
 
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