Overdone

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overdo \O`ver*do"\, v. t. [imp. {Overdid}; p. p. {Overdone}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Overdoing}.]
     1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing;
        to exaggerate; to carry too far.
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              Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to
        overdo one's strength.
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     3. To surpass; to excel. [R.] --Tennyson.
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     4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overdone \o`ver*done"\, a.
     Cooked too long; overcooked.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overdo
       v : do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last
           night when he did 100 push-ups" [syn: {exaggerate}]
       [also: {overdone}, {overdid}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overdone
       adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
              exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: {exaggerated}, {overstated}]
       2: cooked too long but still edible

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overdone
       See {overdo}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "overdone":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified,
     artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding,
     convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness,
     elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant,
     extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting,
     fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant,
     high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
     histrionic, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, insincere,
     la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified,
     magniloquent, maniere, mannered, medium, medium-rare, meretricious,
     orotund, ostentatious, overacted, overcooked, overdrawn,
     overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated,
     overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
     overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic,
     pompous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical,
     sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stagy,
     stilted, stretched, superlative, tall, theatrical, tortuous,
     touted, unnatural, well-cooked, well-done