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verb

past tense of overheat

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Recent Examples of overheated
Adjective
Maxwell struggled to slow the run; Michie poured Coke bottles of water onto the overheated reel drag. Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025 In the meantime, Nelson said, there are some things travelers can do to minimize their own risks in an overheated cabin, and to help advocate for safer standards across the industry. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 3 July 2025 Nassau County Fire Rescue responded to the overheated passengers and treated 16 people at the tracks, confirmed the agency’s spokesperson Sabrina Robertson. Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025 Fire Hoses Used to Cool Down Brakes Users in the Reddit thread discussed the cause, noting that the emergency crews were responding to the possibility of overheated brakes from a fuel-heavy landing. Matthew Impelli, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for overheated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
Adjective
  • Boreyko's lab discovered that this effect can also be achieved in ice simply by placing a thin, flat disc of ice on a heated aluminum surface.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This thinking — amplified by extensive 24/7 hybrid media coverage and heated venture capital echo chambers — obscures a more nuanced transformation occurring at the periphery of traditional power structures.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Shore likes to use Canadian bacon for recipes that call for subtle smoke, where the lean meat is rolled or layered with a richer substance like béchamel or hollandaise and gently warmed.
    Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The landscapes of icy moons across our Solar System are shaped not by molten lava flows, but by water that boils and freezes simultaneously due to extremely low pressure in space.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2025
  • Ideally, a chocolate molten lava cake with some ice cream on top is my go-to.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Whitehouse argues that these crystals formed in an igneous rock 2.8 billion years ago and then were eroded, washed into the sea, and settled in the silt.
    Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Grand Canyon Formed millions of years ago through the uplift of igneous and metamorphic rock and carved by the Colorado River through erosion, the Grand Canyon is one of America's greatest geological treasures.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025

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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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