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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“What we’re doing here is trying to take mechanisms that fight where your body overdoes it.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
It never overdoes the retro affectations, and the lengthy middle section that slowly builds to the appearance of a choir is particularly fantastic.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2020
Daley notes that Plemons’s comfort inhabiting a sinister character like Gary prevented him from becoming the kind of dramatic actor who overdoes comedy to “sweaty and awkward” effect.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2020
“The movie succeeds because it at once restrains its sticky, gooey good cheer and wildly overdoes it,” the critic A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018
But Realism wants to take its pots and pans into the parlor: it always overdoes things.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
