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What does overdriven mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word overdriven? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Driven too hard; exhausted
  2. (music) Characteristic of overdrive
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The lack of a significant damping factor is one reason vintage amps sounded so rich on the bottom and so relaxed when overdriven.
Bruised and shaken, sweating like an overdriven horse, she imagined how pleasant it would be to lie down in the garbage and go to sleep.
His overdriven sound drops in and out suddenly, while behind him Previte's drums break up choppily as though heard via an unreliable connection.
A clip-release position simulates an overdriven electronic distortion that could work for guitars or synths.
A big, rumbling beat joins with a wobbly bass line so overdriven it sounds on the verge of collapse.
Then again, I probably wouldn't have been able to hear much ukulele over Johnson's overdriven polyrhythms and unusual Dorian modes.

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