overheat

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

overheat
    v 1: get excessively and undesirably hot; "The car engines
         overheated"
    2: make excessively or undesirably hot; "The room was
       overheated"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Overheat \O`ver*heat"\, v. t. [Cf. {Superheat}.]
   To heat to excess; to superheat. --Cowper.
   [1913 Webster]

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