overdrive
- to push or carry to excess; overwork.
- to drive too hard.
- Machinery, Automotive. a device containing a gear set at such ratio and arrangement as to provide a drive shaft speed greater than the engine crankshaft speed.
- Informal. an intense state of activity or productivity: The political campaign has shifted into overdrive.
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Contemporary Examples of overdrive
When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.
The Tea Party hate machine has gone into overdrive in South Carolina, so how has Lindsey Graham survived so comfortably?
Newspapers in the U.K. went into overdrive as they speculated about the likelihood of a fresh royal wedding.
The back and forth has sent the gossip blogs into overdrive.
The Palestinian Arab propaganda machine is in overdrive once again.
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Historical Examples of overdrive
A ship from Orede had come out of overdrive and lay dead in emptiness.
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Air-scarcity killed them before the ship came out of overdrive.
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So they want to use your ship—it's faster in overdrive and so on.
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It had gone into overdrive, heading for Dara at many times the speed of light.
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The Med Ship broke out of overdrive at 1300 hours, ship time.
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overdrive
- a very high gear in a motor vehicle used at high speeds to reduce wear and save fuel
- in overdrive in a state of intense activity
- into overdrive into a state of intense activity
- (tr) to drive too hard or too far; overwork or overuse