overdo
verb (used with object)
to do to excess; overindulge in.
were overdoing
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past progressiveof overdo.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Many, like Mantel, realized they were overdoing it.
From Fox News ● May 29, 2021
At times, even his mentors worried that Miller and Trump were overdoing things.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020
One felt that the Hotel Company were overdoing it!
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
A secret instinct warned me that they were overdoing the matter, and that they were making me look ridiculous; but I did not mind.
From The Count's Millions by Émile Gaboriau
One might overdo—we were overdoing in our writing nowadays this—philoprogenitive enthusiasm....
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
