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Noun overheating has 1 sense

overheating - excessive heating
--₁ is a kind of heating, warming
--₁ has particulars: meltdown, nuclear meltdown
Derived forms: verb overheat₂, verb overheat₁

Verb overheat has 2 senses

overheat - get excessively and undesirably hot; "The car engines overheated"
--₁ is one way to heat, hot up, heat up

Derived form: noun overheating₁
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
overheat - make excessively or undesirably hot; "The room was overheated"
--₂ is one way to heat, heat up

Derived form: noun overheating₁
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something