OVERDRAW (overdrawn, overdrew)

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Irregular inflected forms: overdrawn    , overdrew   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overdraw mean? 

• OVERDRAW (verb)
  The verb OVERDRAW has 2 senses:

1. draw more money from than is available

2. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

  Familiarity information: OVERDRAW used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERDRAW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overdraw    ... he / she / it overdraws   
Past simple: overdrew   
Past participle: overdrawn   
-ing form: overdrawing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw more money from than is available

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

She overdrew her account

Hypernyms (to "overdraw" is one way to...):

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate

Context example:

tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Hypernyms (to "overdraw" is one way to...):

misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overdraw"):

overemphasise; overemphasize; overstress (place special or excessive emphasis on)

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad (add details to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

She had often read of such characters, characters which Mr. Allen had been used to call unnatural and overdrawn; but here was proof positive of the contrary.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)