Overdo vs Extravagant - What's the difference?
overdo | extravagant |
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.
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
* (William Shakespeare)
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
* Addison
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 Exorbitant.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
As a verb overdo
is to do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.As an adjective extravagant is
exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.overdo
English
Verb
- Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
- to overdo one's strength
- (Tennyson)
- to overdo the meat
References
* *Anagrams
* English irregular verbsextravagant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
- (Bancroft)