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# overheat

verb (overheat, overheats, overheated, overheating)

«overheat» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To overheat is to become too hot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#m1)
2. To overheat something is to make it too hot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#m2)

### In the lessons

In safety lessons phones, chargers, adaptors and laptops can overheat and catch fire, so do not leave them charging on a bed or cover them. In health lessons people and pets can overheat in hot weather — drink water, find shade, never leave a dog in a hot car. In science engines overheat if they lack cooling water. Phrases: overheat in the sun, overheating engine, the room is overheated.

### Examples

- Don't let your laptop overheat on the bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x1)
- The car engine overheated on the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x2)
- Dogs can overheat in hot cars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x3)
- Drink water so your body does not overheat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x4)
- The phone overheated and switched off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x5)
- Don't overheat the milk — it will burn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/#x6)

### Note

Regular verb (overheated). «Over-» means too much: overheat, overeat, overfill. Signs a person is overheating: very hot skin, headache, dizziness — move to the shade, drink water, tell an adult.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «overheat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overheat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«overheat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/overheat.html) on Mova free.