overdraw
verb (used with object)
to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal.
have overdrawn
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present perfectof overdraw.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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However, the leading theory is that the landfill’s gas extraction wells may have overdrawn methane and other gases, inadvertently introducing oxygen deep inside the landfill’s well system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Over the years since, those states have overdrawn the river’s average deposits.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
I have overdrawn my account with Williams, and I'll lose my place if it is not paid.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
The truth is I have overdrawn my bankers by five hundred pounds, and they have, as they say, ventured to remind me of it.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
One would have asserted without scruple that if Mr Pecksniff's conscience were his bank, and he kept a running account there, he must have overdrawn it beyond all mortal means of computation.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
