overdraw Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb draw more money from than is available
    • She overdrew her account
  2. verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
    magnify; exaggerate; overstate; hyperbolize; hyperbolise; amplify.
    • tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

WordNet


O`ver*draw" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect Overdrew ; past participle Overdrawn ; present participle & verbal noun Overdrawing
Definitions
  1. To exaggerate; to overdo.
  2. (Banking) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

Webster 1913