What's the difference between overbid and overdid?
Overbid
Definition:
(v. t.) To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responding to repeated warnings from Branson that FirstGroup had overbid, O'Toole said: "This company is going up against an organisation whose core competency is publicity and PR.
(2) Writing on his blog, Branson said : "We also did not want to risk letting everybody down with almost certain bankruptcy at some time during the franchise as happened to GNER and National Express who overbid on the east coast mainline.
(3) And it’s not because of that heavy eBay session where you overbid for a signed Bulgarian copy of Wet Wet Wet’s first LP .
(4) Real estate developers have overbid on too many properties where the only way their business plans pencil out is if they dramatically raise rents by pushing out lower-rent tenants, or starve a building of basic maintenance,” Garodnick told the Guardian.
Overdid
Definition:
(imp.) of Overdo
Example Sentences:
(1) !” A female singer who overdid the sexiness was automatically a “foxtress”, and a rock star who overplayed the social conscience bit – usually the luckless Weller again – was addressing “ver kidz”.
(2) I drank four times more on Saturday, but I was at my pre-birthday dinner party with chums and we all rather overdid it, which helped us to forget our impairments: irregular heartbeats, poorly knees, high blood pressure, Sjögren's syndrome, indigestion, arthritis, un-bendy back, tinnitus, trigger-finger and mild Murray Valley fever virus.
(3) These people who hurt in the places where we used to play have been told like us that they overdid it, and now it is payback time.
(4) "Order, order," cried Mr Speaker as they all overdid it. "
(5) There’s no question [that the] BfV overdid the financing of informants during the early 1990s,” said Hajo Funke, a professor of politics at the Free University of Berlin, who is the author of a book on the NSU.
(6) CP's speech again overdid the emotion, and as he sat down, he was close to tears and his daughters behind him were crying.
(7) Clegg overdid the intensely-relaxed-with-nothing-to-lose look.
(8) I accept that I probably overdid it on awards,” he said.
(9) Yet five minutes later Real overdid their gratitude by conceding an almost equally soft equaliser.
(10) And I overdid it, and I went further, and on the second Star Trek movie I went nuts.
(11) There is general agreement that the Tories overdid austerity.
(12) Romney overdid it here, which seem strange because he could have coasted a little and played safe.
(13) Oil has been rising on the back of events in Libya and Japan, and people are now saying, 'Hang on, maybe we overdid it.'