overheated
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]overheated
- simple past and past participle of overheat
Adjective
[edit]overheated (comparative more overheated, superlative most overheated)
- Excessively heated.
- 2010, Ghostland Observatory (lyrics and music), “Sad Sad City”, in Paparazzi Lightning:
- Been getting tired of my motor running / Feeling overheated 'cause my life keeps coming / My heart has been troubled by the speed of love
- 2011, Jason Zinoman, Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 61:
- He was hooked immediately by the overheated imagery, the overblownness of it all. No writer he read had ever communicated that feeling of an incomprehensible madness.
- 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:
- He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
Translations
[edit]excessively heated
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