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overheato‧ver‧heat /ˌəʊvəˈhiːt $ ˌoʊvər-/ verb [intransitive, transitive]   VERB TABLEoverheat |
| Present | I, you, we, they | overheat | | he, she, it | overheats | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overheated | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overheated | | he, she, it | has overheated | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overheated | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overheat | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overheated |
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| Present | I | am overheating | | he, she, it | is overheating | | you, we, they | are overheating | | Past | I, he, she, it | was overheating | | you, we, they | were overheating | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overheating | | he, she, it | has been overheating | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overheating | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overheating | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overheating |
- Critics say the economy overheated because of the recent tax cuts.
- If the fan doesn't work, the engine could overheat.
- The cooling system broke down, the nuclear reactor overheated, and the plant had to be evacuated.
- The engine started overheating and steam poured out of the front of the car.
- Again, it's vital not to overheat the liquid because it will curdle as well as lose its taste.
- If the wiring were overheating, it could have caused oxygen-generating canisters in the cargo hold to explode, he said.
- Last year, a limited number of PowerBooks were recalled because of an overheating problem.
- Sea breezes kept us from overheating and at the end of the day we chugged into Mombassa harbour.
- Stock and bond investors have been wary for months that the economy would overheat and prompt the Fed to tighten.
- The biggest danger for any stranded cetacean is overheating.
- The entire operation will use remote devices in the boron-rich water that keeps the reactor fuel from overheating.
- The oven had an open front to avoid overheating.
to get hot or hotter► get hot/warm/hotter/warmer · If the lawnmower gets hot, turn it off.· As the summer got hotter, the streams began to run more slowly.· The rocks get warmer in the sun and the lizards come out to lie on them.it gets hot/warm (=the weather gets hot) · It got hotter and hotter throughout the day. ► heat up to get hotter, especially gradually as a result of being heated by something else: · The stones heated up in the sun.· As the gas heats up, it expands.· While the oven is heating up, prepare the sauce. ► warm up if something such as a place warms up , it gradually becomes warmer after being cold, especially so that it reaches a more comfortable temperature: · The room began to warm up.· It usually takes a long time for the sea to warm up.· It's pretty cold outside now, but it should warm up later. ► overheat if an engine or a machine overheats , it becomes too hot and cannot work properly: · The engine started overheating and steam poured out of the front of the car.· The cooling system broke down, the nuclear reactor overheated, and the plant had to be evacuated. NOUN► economy· The second is that the spending increase leads to the economy overheating and thus forces interest rates up.· Stock and bond investors have been wary for months that the economy would overheat and prompt the Fed to tighten.· Ireland has already been rapped over the knuckles for cutting taxes just as its economy was overheating.· Lifting economies out of recession is easy compared with deciding when to re-apply the brakes so the economy does not overheat later. nounheatheaterheatingverbheatoverheatadjectiveheated ≠ unheatedadverbheatedly 1to become too hot, or to make something too hot:  I think the engine’s overheating again. Try not to overheat the sauce.2if a country’s economy overheats, or if something overheats it, it grows too fast and this leads to increases in prices, salaries, interest rates etc |