overheated
/ˈoʊvɚhˌitɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of overheat
adj
Example Sentences
- "Been getting tired of my motor running / Feeling overheated 'cause my life keeps coming / My heart has been troubled by the speed of love"
- "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."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more overheated (comparative)
most overheated (superlative)