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Noun: overheating  ,ow-vu(r)'hee-ting
  1. Excessive heating
Verb: overheat  ,ow-vu(r)'heet
  1. Get excessively and undesirably hot
    "The car engines overheated"
     
  2. Make excessively or undesirably hot
    "The room was overheated"

Type of: heat, heat up, heating, hot up [Brit], warming

Encyclopedia: Overheating