Overdone
[,əuvə'dʌn]
Definition
(p. p.) of Overdo
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Overwrought.[2]. Cooked too much.
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Examples
- But isn't this relic matter a little overdone? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The eaters of the dinner, like the dinner itself, were lukewarm, insipid, overdone--and all owing to this poor little dull Young Barnacle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Your Jew was a masterpiece of fine, chaste acting, nothing overdone--no grimace! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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