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overdrive
[ verb oh-ver-drahyv; noun oh-ver-drahyv ]
verb (used with object)
- to push or carry to excess; overwork.
- to drive too hard.
noun
- Machinery, Automotive. a device containing a gear set at such ratio and arrangement as to provide a drive shaft speed greater than the engine crankshaft speed.
- Also called hyperdrive. Informal. a state of intense activity or productivity:
The political campaign has shifted into overdrive.
overdrive
noun
- a very high gear in a motor vehicle used at high speeds to reduce wear and save fuel
- in overdrivein a state of intense activity
- into overdriveinto a state of intense activity
verb
- tr to drive too hard or too far; overwork or overuse
Word History and Origins
Origin of overdrive1
Example Sentences
The platform remains – but Liverpool will now go into overdrive this summer, with their recruitment team, under sporting director Richard Hughes, well on with preparations to add heavyweight reinforcements.
While all this political reading was in overdrive, people were still buying other books.
Chantel Crump's body was found two days later in a case that has caused widespread public outrage and protests - and sent rumours into overdrive.
Here’s how the trend went beyond ‘Coexist’ and into overdrive.
Of course the fire in the Oval was only inflamed by the president’s rhetoric on social media, so that’s when the White House damage control kicked into overdrive.
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