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"text": "[…] o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end […] is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature;",
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"text": "[B]elieve me, / That servant overdoes, that’s too officious; / And in presuming to direct your master, / You argue him of weakness, and your self / Of arrogance and impertinence.",
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"text": "The merchant importers […] endeavour, as well as they can, to suit their occasional importations to what, they judge, is likely to be the immediate demand. With all their attention, however, they sometimes over-do the business, and sometimes under-do it.",
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"sense": "to do too much of something",
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"sense": "to do too much of something",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to do too much of something",
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "zu lange kochen"
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"word": "túlfőz"
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I should be afraid she might overdo, if I didn’t know her ‘moral fit’ wouldn’t last long.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1952, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 16, in The Price of Salt, New York: Norton, published 2004, page 200:\", \"text\": \"Carol had overdone the ventilation and the room was cold.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}], \"glosses\": [\"To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.\"], \"links\": [[\"exceed\", \"exceed\"]], \"synonyms\": [{\"word\": \"exaggerate\"}]}, {\"antonyms\": [{\"word\": \"underdo\"}, {\"word\": \"undercook\"}], \"categories\": [\"English terms with quotations\", \"English terms with usage examples\"], \"examples\": [{\"text\": \"to overdo the meat\", \"type\": \"example\"}, {\"ref\": \"1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay=V”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 43:\", \"text\": \"[He] talked of a feast where he had been the day before, but that the venison was over-done.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 332:\", \"text\": \"Well, for the future, when you cook another whale-steak for my private table here, the capstan, I’ll tell you what to do so as not to spoil it by overdoing. Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d’ye hear?\", \"type\": \"quote\"}], \"glosses\": [\"To cook for too long.\"], \"links\": [[\"cook\", \"cook\"]], \"senseid\": [\"en:overcook\"], \"synonyms\": [{\"word\": \"overcook\"}]}, {\"categories\": [\"English terms with quotations\", \"English terms with usage examples\", \"Quotation templates to be cleaned\"], \"examples\": [{\"text\": \"to overdo one’s strength\", \"type\": \"example\"}, {\"ref\": \"1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 2”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […], →OCLC, signature D2, recto:\", \"text\": \"Good God! hovv poore a thing is vvretched man? / So fraile, that let him ſtriue the beſt he can, / VVith euery little blaſt hee’s ouerdon.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1680, Matthew Stevenson, “Acontius to Cydippe”, in The Wits Paraphras’d, or, Paraphrase upon Paraphrase in a Burlesque on the Several Late Translations of Ovids Epistles, London: Will. Cademan, page 134:\", \"text\": \"And you’re so weak I’le not pursue you,\\nFor fear lest I should overdo you.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1799, Hannah More, chapter 16, in Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, volume 2, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, page 156:\", \"text\": \"[…] look abroad and see who are the people that complain of weariness, listlessness, and dejection? You will not find them among such as are overdone with work, but with pleasure.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 268:\", \"text\": \"“Bern, you’re weak—trembling—you talk wildly,” cried Bess. “You’ve overdone your strength. [...]”\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, “A Full Peal of Grandsire Triples”, in The Nine Tailors, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1975, Part 5:\", \"text\": \"“Oh!” said Mrs. Venables, “how tiresome it all is. I’m sure you’ll wear your brains right out with all these problems. You mustn’t overdo yourself. 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nature shall ouerdoe that of art and Industrie.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1654, John Cleveland, The Idol of the Clownes, London, page 35:\", \"text\": \"[...] it would be their shame for ever to be overdone in mischiefe, nor were they here exceeded.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 4, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London: for the author, page 28:\", \"text\": \"the Turks delight but little in the outward Ornament of Houses, nor aspire in the least to overdo each other in the Europaean Custom of Polite and Solid Architecture, yet do they far more exceed us in the rich Ornaments and Contrivances of their Pavilions,\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, 1859 edition, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 171:\", \"text\": \"But in the field were Lancelot’s kith and kin, […] / Strong men, and wrathful that a stranger knight / Should do and almost 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\"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"liioitella\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"en faire trop\"}, {\"code\": \"gl\", \"lang\": \"Galician\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"esaxerar\"}, {\"code\": \"gl\", \"lang\": \"Galician\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"pasarse\"}, {\"code\": \"gl\", \"lang\": \"Galician\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"excederse\"}, {\"code\": \"de\", \"lang\": \"German\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"übertreiben\"}, {\"code\": \"el\", \"lang\": \"Greek\", \"roman\": \"parakáno\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"παρακάνω\"}, {\"code\": \"el\", \"lang\": \"Greek\", \"roman\": \"paraxilóno\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"παραξηλώνω\"}, {\"code\": \"hu\", \"lang\": \"Hungarian\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"túlzásba visz\"}, {\"code\": \"hu\", \"lang\": \"Hungarian\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"eltúloz\"}, {\"code\": \"it\", \"lang\": \"Italian\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"esagerare\"}, {\"code\": \"ja\", \"lang\": \"Japanese\", \"roman\": \"yarisugiru\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"やり過ぎる\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"exagerar\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"perestaratʹsja\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"перестараться\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"pereuserdstvovatʹ\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"переусердствовать\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"pereborščitʹ\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"tags\": [\"informal\"], \"word\": \"переборщить\"}, {\"code\": \"sl\", \"lang\": \"Slovene\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"pretiravati\"}, {\"code\": \"es\", \"lang\": \"Spanish\", \"sense\": \"to do too much of something\", \"word\": \"pasarse\"}, {\"code\": \"bg\", \"lang\": \"Bulgarian\", \"roman\": \"prepičam\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"препичам\"}, {\"code\": \"bg\", \"lang\": \"Bulgarian\", \"roman\": \"prevarjavam\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"преварявам\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"trop cuire\"}, {\"code\": \"de\", \"lang\": \"German\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"zu lange kochen\"}, {\"code\": \"hu\", \"lang\": \"Hungarian\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"túlfőz\"}, {\"code\": \"hu\", \"lang\": \"Hungarian\", \"sense\": \"to cook too much — see also overcook\", \"word\": \"túlsüt\"}, 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