overheat Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb get excessively and undesirably hot
    • The car engines overheated
  2. verb make excessively or undesirably hot
    • The room was overheated

WordNet


O`ver*heat" transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Superheat.
Definitions
  1. To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

Webster 1913