8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb get excessively and undesirably hot
verb make excessively or undesirably hot
originFrom Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.
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