- present participle of overdo.
overdoing
Example Sentences
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To promote the change, Axe is running a campaign called “The History of Overdoing It.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Overdoing it, the experts say, doesn’t have to be inevitable at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
Overdoing it could come at a cost: Leaving more people out of work, with lower incomes and more limited prospects, than is necessary.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
Just around the corner is Thanksgiving, our annual American Festival of Overdoing It, and here apples can do heavy lifting beyond their presence in pies.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
Overdoing it does not please Jack, for he dislikes to see his commander "salamming like a captured Frenchman."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
