1.
[syn: exaggerated, overdone, overstated]
2. cooked too long but still edible;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Overdo \O`ver*do"\, v. t. [imp. Overdid; p. p. Overdone; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overdoing.]
1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing;
to exaggerate; to carry too far.
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Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
--Shak.
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2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to
overdo one's strength.
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3. To surpass; to excel. [R.] --Tennyson.
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4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
overdone \o`ver*done"\, a.
Cooked too long; overcooked.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
overdone
adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: exaggerated,
overdone, overstated]
2: cooked too long but still edible
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "overdone":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified,
artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding,
convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness,
elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant,
extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting,
fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant,
high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
histrionic, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, insincere,
la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified,
magniloquent, maniere, mannered, medium, medium-rare, meretricious,
orotund, ostentatious, overacted, overcooked, overdrawn,
overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated,
overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic,
pompous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical,
sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stagy,
stilted, stretched, superlative, tall, theatrical, tortuous,
touted, unnatural, well-cooked, well-done