overdrive

A noun referring to a state of high or excessive activity, productivity, or concentration, or a high gear used at high speeds to maintain driving speed with less output power.

• 🌐اسم يدل على حالة من النشاط أو الإنتاجية أو التركيز الشديد أو المفرط، كما يدل في السيارات على ترس أو وضع يعمل عند السرعات العالية للحفاظ على السرعة بعزم أقل.

1. State of high activity B2 informal

   A condition of intense or excessive activity, productivity, or concentration.

   • The team went into overdrive to meet the deadline.
   • Her brain went into overdrive trying to solve the puzzle.
   • The factory is in overdrive to fulfill all the orders.

   🌐حالة النشاط المفرط

   المرادفات: bustlecommotionexcitementfever pitchfrenzyhigh gearhyperactivityintensity

2. High gear in vehicles B2 formal

   A gear in a motor vehicle that allows it to maintain high speed with reduced engine power output.

   • He shifted into overdrive on the highway to save fuel.
   • The car's overdrive gear is ideal for long-distance driving.
   • Engaging overdrive reduces engine wear at high speeds.

   🌐ترس مضاعفة السرعة

   المرادفات: high gear

• overdrives plural form
• overdrives' possessive plural form
• overdrive's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to drive a vehicle or machine at an excessive speed or beyond normal limits, often used metaphorically to mean pushing something to its maximum capacity.

• 🌐فعل يعني قيادة وسيلة نقل أو تشغيل آلية بسرعة مفرطة أو بما يتجاوز الحدود الطبيعية، ويُستخدم مجازًا للدلالة على دفع شيء ما إلى أقصى طاقة أو قدرة.

1. Work or drive excessively B2 informal

   To push someone or something beyond normal limits, often causing strain or exhaustion.

   • The manager overdrives his team with unrealistic deadlines.
   • She overdrives her car by never taking it for maintenance.
   • He tends to overdrive himself during exam season.

   🌐إرهاق

   المرادفات: exhaustoverburdenoverextendovertaxoverworkstrain

   الأضداد: easerest

2. Use too frequently or extensively B2 informal

   To rely on something too much, making it less effective or original.

   • The movie overdrives the same tired plot twist.
   • Writers often overdrive clichés in their stories.
   • The comedian overdrives that joke in every performance.

   🌐الإفراط في الاستخدام

   المرادفات: hackneyoverdooveruseoverwork

   الأضداد: neglect

• overdriven past participle
• overdrove past simple
• overdriving present participle
• overdrives third person singular