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/ˈoʊvərdrˌɔ/ Listen

Overdraw

verb

(past overdrew; past part. overdrawn; pres. part. overdrawing)

Draw more money from than is available.

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate. Antonym: understate.

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"Overdraw" Quotes from Famous Books

... overdraw this picture of one who is only a type of thousands. It is impossible to give any adequate specification of him. He takes me, metaphorically, by the throat, and I am helpless. With vivid strokes he paints me scene after scene, episode after episode, of his life in "a windbag," and ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... exclaimed once, "do you mean to tell me that you never overdraw your allowance? It is not natural; almost wrong indeed. I wonder what your secret vices are? Well, so long as you keep them secret, you ought to be a big man one day and end up in a very different position to George Cubitte—called ...

— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard

... rather soon slipped quietly under the table, to be told the next day most of the snappy toasts and stories the other fellows had contributed to the occasion. These entertainments soon forced Dave to overdraw his allowance. A business- like letter asking explanations came from his father, and this was followed by a peremptory command that he live within his already "ample remittance." Father and son had never been companions, and here the boy's devotion ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... I do not overdraw this picture of one who is only a type of thousands. It is impossible to give any adequate specification of him. He takes me, metaphorically, by the throat, and I am helpless. With vivid strokes he paints me scene after scene, episode after episode, ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... as much as you please. If the cheque comes back that will be my look out." Lizzie had tried that game before, and knew that the bankers would allow her to overdraw. "Come, be a good friend and do it ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope