overdraw

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to withdraw more money than an account holds; to exaggerate

   She forgot a payment and managed to overdraw her checking account.

From over- ('beyond a limit') plus draw, from Old English dragan ('to draw, pull'). The banking sense 'withdraw more than the balance' and the figurative 'exaggerate' both derive from drawing beyond a proper bound.

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