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"overdo" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often exaggerate (10 letters).
Definitions
do something to an excessive degree
Word origin
From Middle English overdon, from Old English oferdōn, equivalent to over- + do.
Used in a sentence
“I overdid the sweets during the holidays and put on some weight.”
“[…] o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end […] is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature;”
“[B]elieve me, / That servant overdoes, that’s too officious; / And in presuming to direct your master, / You argue him of weakness, and your self / Of arrogance and impertinence.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Take too far”6 letters
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