Misdo vs Overdo - What's the difference?
misdo | overdo |
(archaic) To do evil.
To do (something) incorrectly or improperly.
*Milton
*:Afford me place to show what recompense / Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone .
(archaic) To do harm to; to injure, mistreat.
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*:th?ne cam out a duchesse / & Clarysyn the countesse with many ladyes & damoysels / and knelyng bifore kynge Arthur requyred hym for the loue of god to receyue the cyte / & not to take it by assaulte for thenne shold many gyltles be slayne / th?ne the kyng aualyd his vyser with a meke & noble co?tena?ce / & said madame ther shal none of my subgettys mysdoo you ne your maydens
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
* Shakespeare
To overtask or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust.
To surpass; to excel.
To cook too much.
As verbs the difference between misdo and overdo
is that misdo is (archaic|intransitive) to do evil while overdo is to do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.misdo
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overdo
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- Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
- to overdo one's strength
- (Tennyson)
- to overdo the meat