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Word Meanings - OVERDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak. 2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.

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1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak. 2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength. 3. To surpass; to excel. Tennyson. 4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

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  • EXCEEDING
    More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DOWNWEED
    Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
  • DONATOR
    One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
  • DOWNPOUR
    A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
  • DOG-ROSE
    A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
  • DOG'S-EAR
    The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
  • PLAY
    quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
  • EXCEPT
    1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • DODECASYLLABIC
    Having twelve syllables.
  • DOIT
    1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
  • DORMANCY
    The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
  • DOGMATIC
    One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
  • DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
    A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
  • DOMITE
    A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
  • DOVELET
    A young or small dove. Booth.
  • DOQUET
    A warrant. See Docket.
  • OVERTASK
    To task too heavily.
  • DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
    A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
  • DOCTORATE
    The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
  • ADONAI
    A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • HADDOCK
    A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
  • PAEDOGENESIS
    Reproduction by young or larval animals.
  • PAEDOGENETIC
    Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
  • MICRODONT
    Having small teeth.
  • CONDOLER
    One who condoles.
  • ACCELERANDO
    Gradually accelerating the movement.
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    Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
  • GRENADO
    See GRENADE

 

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