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Adjective: overheated  ,ow-vu(r)'hee-tid
  1. Heated beyond a safe or desirable point
    "the child became overheated"; "overheated metal"
Verb: overheat  ,ow-vu(r)'heet
  1. Get excessively and undesirably hot
    "The car engines overheated"
     
  2. Make excessively or undesirably hot
    "The room was overheated"

See also: hot

Type of: heat, heat up, hot up [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Overheated

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