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overdrive
[ verb oh-ver-drahyv; noun oh-ver-drahyv ]
verb (used with object)
- to push or carry to excess; overwork.
- to drive too hard.
noun
- 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.
- Also called hyperdrive. Informal. a state of intense activity or productivity:
The political campaign has shifted into overdrive.
overdrive
noun
- a very high gear in a motor vehicle used at high speeds to reduce wear and save fuel
- in overdrivein a state of intense activity
- into overdriveinto a state of intense activity
verb
- tr to drive too hard or too far; overwork or overuse
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Example Sentences
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.
To overdrive the willingest troops any General ever had under his command is a sin—but we must go on fighting to-morrow!
There isn't a team in the country gets more grooming than those colts, and not a man has been known to overdrive them.
The distance was too short for even the briefest of overdrive hops, but it would take time to get there on solar-system drive.
A ship in overdrive feels exactly as if it were buried deep in the core of a planet.
A long time later Calhoun heard small sounds which were not normal on a Med Ship in overdrive.
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