Usually means: Exceed necessary limits or expectations.
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  1. overdo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overdo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overdo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overdo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overdo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overdo, overdo: Wordnik
  7. overdo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overdo: Wiktionary
  9. overdo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overdo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overdo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overdo, overdo: Dictionary.com
  13. overdo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overdo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overdo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overdo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overdo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overdo: Rhymezone
  19. overdo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overdo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overdo: Free Dictionary
  22. overdo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overdo: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. overdo: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
verb:  (transitive) To cook for too long.
verb:  (transitive) To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To do more than (someone); to do (something) to a greater extent.

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