overdo
verb (used with object)
to do to excess; overindulge in.
had overdone
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past perfectof overdo.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“I got to the stage where I realized I was burning out, and I had overdone it,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Those who interpreted the first book's reference to a relatively upright swing plane as meaning perfectly upright had overdone it, the authors wrote.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 31, 2017
Though in her opinion, they had overdone it.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2015
The first is that, thinking he had overdone the satire of Florio, and perhaps needing to make a theatrical cut, Shakespeare erased the passage from the play.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
Once or twice she had overdone this even in Evie's eyes, but I had been dull enough not to see at first that her ascendancy over Evie was not direct, but mediate.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
