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overheat

over·heat

UK/ˌəʊvəˈhiːt/ US/ˌoʊvɚˈhit/ rare

verb

1.

get excessively and undesirably hot

  • “The car engines overheated”
2.

make excessively or undesirably hot

  • “The room was overheated”

Origin

From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.

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