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o·ver·heat

(ō′vər-hēt′)

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.

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overheated

(ˌəʊvəˈhiːtɪd)

adj

(Economics) economics inflated or tending towards inflation

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Adj.

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

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overheated

[ˌəʊvə^rˈhiːtɪd] adj

[room, building] → surchauffé(e)

[market] → en surchauffe

(= angry) [person] → irascible

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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:--

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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.

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She was overheated and irritable, and fanned herself energetically for a while.

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1542 he became overheated, fell into a fever, and died.

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I found more pleasure in contemplating the Old Masters this time than I did when I was in Europe in former years, but still it was a calm pleasure; there was nothing overheated about it.

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Casaubon visiting the Grange; and though the room was a little overheated with the fire, which had sent the spaniel panting to a remote corner, Rosamond, for some reason, continued to sit at her embroidery longer than usual, now and then giving herself a little shake, and laying her work on her knee to contemplate it with an air of hesitating weariness.

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Such things give a completeness to prosperity, and contribute elements of agreeable consciousness that are not dreamed of by that short-sighted, overheated vindictiveness which goes out its way to wreak itself in direct injury.

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We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bor- dered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted man- groves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.

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