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Overdraw

verb

(past overdrew; past part. overdrawn; pres. part. overdrawing)

Draw more money from than is available.

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate.

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"Overdraw" Quotes from Famous Books

... as much as you please. If the cheque comes back that will be my look out." Lizzie had tried that game before, and knew that the bankers would allow her to overdraw. "Come, be a good friend and do it ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... I do not overdraw this picture of one who is only a type of thousands. It is impossible to give any adequate specification of him. He takes me, metaphorically, by the throat, and I am helpless. With vivid strokes he paints me scene after scene, episode after episode, of his life in "a windbag," and ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... to overdraw the personal peculiarities of the seamen. I remember nothing corresponding at all to the extravagances instanced in my early reading of Colburn's; such as a frigate's watch—say one hundred and fifty men—on liberty in Portsmouth, England, buying up all the gold-laced cocked ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... things. The clock had only been the light love of an hour. Here was the eternal queen, that is, unless there existed a still better chest somewhere else, and I should happen to find it. Meanwhile, whatever price that old slave-dealer Potts wanted for it, must be paid to him even if I had to overdraw my somewhat slender account. Seraglios, of whatever sort, it must be remembered, are expensive luxuries of the rich indeed, though, if of antiques, they can be sold again, which cannot be said of the human kind for who wants to buy ...

— The Virgin of the Sun • H. R. Haggard

... to honor my draft for a large amount. I am about to draw upon your sympathy; can I ever overdraw my account with that ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson