Definizione monolingua

overdrive

overdrive

1. exaggerate (to overstate, to describe more than is fact)

overdrive (usually uncountable; plural overdrives)

1. (dated) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.
   • 1981 Oct, Popular Mechanics?, page 201:

     Cruising in overdrive at legal highway speed keeps rpm right at 1800, depending on rear-axle ratio.

2. A state of heightened activity.
   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The ground beneath her feet, page 78:

     It is true, though its got nothing to do with me, that the building boom that created the Bombay of my childhood went into overdrive in the years before my birth

Definizione dizionario overdrive

overdrive

	sovrautilizzo
	A gear on an automobile

affaticare

spossare

stancare

Altri significati:

A state of heightened activity.

(dated) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.