overdraw

Other forms of overdraw

past tense or participle

overdrawn

past tense or participle

overdrew

present participle

overdrawing·

third person

overdraws·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overdraw

What does overdraw mean?

overdraw means "draw more money from than is available". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overdraw?

overdraw has 3 syllables: o-ver-draw. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌdɹɔ/.

What is another word for overdraw?

Close synonyms include overstate, exaggerate, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overdraw a common word?

overdraw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overdraw?

2 words rhyme with overdraw. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.