Verb: overheat ,ow-vu(r)'heet
- Get excessively and undesirably hot
"The car engines overheated"
- Make excessively or undesirably hot
"The room was overheated"
Derived forms: overheating, overheated, overheats
Type of: heat, heat up, hot up [Brit, informal]
Encyclopedia: Overheat