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overdriven, ppl. a.
(ˈəʊvəˈdrɪv(ə)n: stress var.)
Also 8 -drove.
[Pa. pple. of overdrive v.]
1. That is driven too hard.
1767Ann. Reg. 96 An over-drove ox, entering the Guildhall, threw the whole Court into consternation. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 601 The sufferings..of an overdriven post⁓horse. 1884A. S. Swan Dorothea Kirke iii. 30 The wandering of an over-driven brain.
b. fig. Used to excess, hackneyed.
1888W. Minto in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 670/2 The banishment of a few overdriven phrases and figures of speech from poetic diction.
2. Driven or made to project beyond the general line.
1830Edin. Encycl. IV. 503 An overdriven Keystone, or Console, as it is termed, is one of the most usual ornaments of the Archivolt. |