Crossword-Solution: OVERHEAT 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Overheat v. t. To heat to excess; to superheat.

We have 13 clues for the answer “OVERHEAT”

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Break down due to lack of coolant, as an auto 1 answer
Conk out on the freeway 1 answer
Get a hotbox. 1 answer
Make vehement 1 answer
Need coolant 1 answer
Risk meltdown 1 answer
Spew steam from under the hood 1 answer
Subject to excessive temperature 1 answer
Get too hot 2 answers
Swelter 14 answers
Roast 37 answers
Burn 44 answers
not improve matters 46 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 OVERHEAT (5)

Holliard to see me, who concurs with me that my pain is nothing but cold in my legs breeding wind, and got only by my using to wear a gowne, and that I am not at all troubled with any ulcer, but my thickness of water comes from my overheat in my back.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, August/September 1664 Samuel Pepys 2004
This very day you shall taste of our vintage, which I have hitherto withheld from you, lest it should overheat your languid blood.' Many other questions did Basil ask concerning the rule of the monastery.
Veranilda George Gissing 2003
Conceded that we overheat our houses and our railroad trains and our hotel lobbies in America, nevertheless we do heat them.
Europe Revised Irvin S. Cobb 2003
There was no sensation of overheat, although the arms might weary with the swinging of the heavy maul and the back respond with aches to the stiffened attitude imposed by the adze.
My Tropic Isle E J Banfield 2004
You needed to taxi out and take off as soon as possible as it was a liquid cooled engine and the liquid would overheat and boil out al1 over the plane.
The Biography of a Rabbit Roy Benson 2003

Quotes with OVERHEAT (3)

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.
Terry Pratchett Equal Rites
The kernels of wheat entered the aperture virtually in single file, as if passing between a thumb and an index finger. To mill any faster risked overheating the stone, which in turn risked damaging the flour. In this fact, Dave explained, lies the origin of the phrase "nose to the grindstone": a scrupulous miller leans in frequently to smell his grindstone for signs of flour beginning to overheat. (So the saying does not signify hard work as much as attentiveness.) A wooden s…
Michael Pollan Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think Keiki started it) for leaning out over the tank wall and seeing how far you could balance without falling out. Several animals might be teetering on the tank edge at one time, and sometimes one or another did fall out. Nothing much happened to them, except maybe a cut or a scrape from the gravel around the tanks; but of c…
Karen Pryor Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1962–2025).