Crossword-Solution: OVERDOING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overdoing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Overdo |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERDOING | anagram | DOINGOVER |
We have 3 clues for the answer “OVERDOING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Acting supererogatorily | 1 answer |
| exaggerating | 3 answers |
| Going too far | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERDOING (5)
Since those days, no doubt, it had grown to be suspected that, in consequence of an unfortunate overdoing of a work praiseworthy in itself, the proceedings against the witches had proved far less acceptable to the Beneficent Father than to that very Arch Enemy whom they were intended to distress and utterly overwhelm.
With his usual vigour and resolution he went to work himself with some frantic preachers—who were rather overdoing their sermons in calling him a villain and a tyrant—by shutting up their chapels, and sending a few of them off to prison.
The doctor said his patient had been overdoing himself a little, and must rest more if he was to completely recover.
Sara Lee, who had already caught the British "a" and was rather overdoing it, had a wild impulse to make the same gesture.
Generally you are doing what you want to do--overdoing, in fact, what you want to do and getting simply tired.” “Which is the theory I started with.
Quotes with OVERDOING (3)
I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum
We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1972–1979).