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Definition of Overdraw
1. Verb. Draw more money from than is available. "She overdrew her account"
2. Verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. "Tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
Generic synonyms: Misinform, Mislead
Specialized synonyms: Overemphasise, Overemphasize, Overstress, Blow, Bluster, Boast, Brag, Gas, Gasconade, Shoot A Line, Swash, Tout, Vaunt, Aggrandise, Aggrandize, Blow Up, Dramatise, Dramatize, Embellish, Embroider, Lard, Pad
Derivative terms: Exaggeration, Exaggeration, Exaggeration, Hyperbole, Magnification, Overstatement
Antonyms: Understate
Definition of Overdraw
1. v. t. To exaggerate; to overdo.
Definition of Overdraw
1. Verb. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft ¹
2. Noun. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene, a pixel at a given X,Y location in the final image is replaced by one which is closer to the view point than the existing pixel as determined by their corresponding Z values. ¹
3. Noun. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel would have been overwritten in the course of rendering averaged over a given frame or series of frames. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overdraw
1. to draw checks on in excess of the balance [v -DREW, -DRAWN, -DRAWING, -DRAWS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdraw
Literary usage of Overdraw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"overdraw. To draw upon a person or a bank, by bills or checks, to an amount in
excess of the funds remaining to the drawer's credit with the drawee, ..."
2. Theory and Practice of Estate Accounting for Accountants, Lawyers, Executors by Frederick Henry Baugh, William Christian Schmeisser (1910)
"If Executors overdraw Their Proportion of Cash. If only one bank account is kept,
and the executors should overdraw their proportion of the cash (the estate ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"The loss however did not arise from any discounting business, but from Baird
allowing a particular customer to overdraw his account. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The bill stated that the judgment which had been obtained against the complainant
was for what is called, according to the bank phrase, "an overdraw," ..."
5. One Thousand and One Thoughts from My Library by Dwight Lyman Moody (1898)
"It is utterly impossible for faith to overdraw its account in God's bank.
God could no more disappoint faith than He could deny Himself. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"The bill stated, that the judgment which had been obtained against the complainant
was for what is called, according to the bank phrase, " an overdraw," ..."
7. The New System of Educating Horses, Including Instructions on Feeding by Dennis Magner (1870)
"... down when there is such an intention, and there is not persistence enough to
make reproof sufficiently positive to cure the habit. The overdraw CHECK ..."
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