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Overdone Common

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Overdone has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

past participle of overdo

Adjective
1

represented as greater than is true or reasonable

"an exaggerated opinion of oneself"

2

cooked too long but still edible

3

Cooked too much.

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Origin

The word comes from Middle English overdon, which itself derives from the Old English oferdōn. It is formed by combining over- with done to mean something that has been carried too far or finished excessively.

Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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