Pedal vs Overpedal - What's the difference?

As a noun pedal

is pedal.

(music|intransitive) to overuse the sustaining pedal of a piano, causing the notes to sound too loud.

(en noun)

A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.

A piano usually has two or three pedals .

the pedal of a loom

(medicine) a foot or footlike part.

* brake pedal * pedal pushers * soft pedal * sostenuto pedal * sustaining pedal

To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.

to pedal one's loom

To operate a bicycle.

He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the foot.

* , relating to the hand

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(music) To overuse the sustaining pedal of a piano, causing the notes to sound too loud.