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• v  get excessively and undesirably hot
  The car engines overheated
• v  make excessively or undesirably hot
  The room was overheated
• s  heated beyond a safe or desirable point
  the child became overheated
  overheated metal

• In a nutshell, the economy overheated and the government was too slow to respond, says Jonathan Pincus, chief economist for the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam.
• Earlier this month, Obama conceded that his own rhetoric on trade during the primaries was "overheated and amplified" and that he supports "opening up a dialogue" with trading .
• He has been likened by overheated journalists to Jesus, Mozart and Gandhi, and his father Earl Woods has said, "Tiger will do more than any other man in history to change the .

• overheat

News & Articles

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• Oct. trial date for Palisade mom whose sons died
  A mother charged in the deaths of her two young sons after they overheated in her SUV has pleaded not guilty to charges against her.
  June 14, 2013 - KGWN-TV Cheyenne
• Overheated transformer caused explosion at Hartsfield-Jackson International airport
  A spokesperson for US Airways said that a transformer that overheated caused the explosion in a construction area near Concourse D on Tuesday.
  June 11, 2013 - WSFA 12 Montgomery
• Overheated power cord leads to Rutherford fire that displaced 12
  A defective or overheated power cord triggered a fire at an apartment building that left 12 people homeless early Monday morning – a situation apparently made worse when residents tried to drag a flaming futon outside.
  June 10, 2013 - The Record

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in New York Times
  The days when we are going to be able to grow this economy just on an overheated housing market or people spending, maxing out on their credit cards - those days are over,Mr. Obama said.
• Wen Jiabao in USA Today
  The primary task for macro-economic regulation this year is to prevent fast economic growth from becoming overheated growth and keep structural price increases from turning into significant inflation,Wen said.
• Joseph Lowery in International Herald Tribune
  I just got overheated,Lowery told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home. "The doctor did tell me to slow down, though. I'm going to slow down, but it's hard. Nobody respects my retirement, and I don't insist. You have...