overdone

Etymology

From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferdōn, equivalent to over- + done.

adj

  1. Cooked too much.
  2. Exaggerated.
    There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping. 1997, Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros
  3. Repeated too often; hackneyed.

verb

  1. past participle of overdo

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