overdo
verb (used with object)
to do to excess; overindulge in.
overdoes
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present tense formof overdo (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Lomakin occasionally overdoes Lieutenant Kelly’s wide-eyed bungling, but Carpenter preens suitably in Confederate uniform.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
No one overdoes it, even when the action gets baroque, and their restraint is matched by Haigh’s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
“What we’re doing here is trying to take mechanisms that fight where your body overdoes it.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
Arbery overdoes the symbolism – as with a noisily explosive generator that echoes the breaking string in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019
Another objection is that Freud overdoes the Unconscious; suppressed wishes are usually not so unconscious as he describes them; they are unavowed, unnamed, unanalyzed, but conscious for all that.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
