Overdo vs Overdot - What's the difference?
overdo | overdot |
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 overdo and overdot
is that overdo is to do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far while overdot is to place a dot over.As a noun overdot is
a dot (the diacritical mark) placed above any of a number of letters of the latin script, used in various languages.overdo
English
Verb
- Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
- to overdo one's strength
- (Tennyson)
- to overdo the meat