overdraw
overdraw Lexical Profile
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• verb
To withdraw more money from a bank account than is currently available in the balance, resulting in a negative balance.
"Be careful not to overdraw your checking account before your paycheck is deposited on Friday."
To exaggerate or overstate in describing, depicting, or acting a character or situation.
"The novelist tends to overdraw the villains in his stories, making them seem like caricatures rather than real people."
To pull the string of a bow back too far, beyond its intended or safe draw length.
"If you overdraw a traditional wooden bow, you risk snapping the limbs."
• noun
An act of overdrawing a bank account, or the amount by which an account is overdrawn; an overdraft.
"The bank charged a steep fee for the accidental overdraw on her checking account."
An attachment on an archery bow that allows the archer to use arrows shorter than the normal draw length by positioning the arrow rest behind the bow handle.
"The competitive archer installed an overdraw on his compound bow to shoot lighter, faster arrows."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in Middle English from the prefix 'over-' and the verb 'draw' (from Old English 'dragan', meaning to drag or pull). The banking sense of withdrawing money in excess of one's credit balance emerged in the mid-18th century.