The word 'overdo' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has been done to an excessive degree. Example sentence: I think she overdid it with the decorations for the party.
Although I'm not aware of having eaten a curry with dried fruit since the 1980s, here they work surprisingly well, contributing little pops of juicy sweetness, though it's probably not wise to overdo this.
In fact, though Solomon and Toombs add cumin and coriander, and Toombs uses fenugreek too, it's possible to overdo it with the dry spices here.
Not wanting to overdo it, he wrote that he was apolitical, and thought all politics were cynical.
"You can often overdo it, overact, when you lack confidence," he confides.
Companies will always try to manage their affairs so as to minimise their tax bills, but at a time when voters are feeling the pinch, sensible businesses will realise that if they overdo the tax avoidance they might damage their reputation.
Much of the advice handed out is simple common sense: adopt a healthy lifestyle, eat and drink in moderation, do not smoke, take regular exercise but don't overdo it.
The fear is that policymakers will overdo it, spoiling one of the rare sources of dynamism in a moribund world economy.There were few signs of that in the economic picture provided by the National Bureau of Statistics this week.
In May, for the second consecutive month, there were around 95,000 new loans for house purchase, well down on a year before, but up from the low of 77,000 in November.Another reason not to overdo the gloom is that services activity rose in June according to the monthly purchasing managers' survey.
And America's downstream firms are arguably the world's leaders in finding ways to encourage consumers to try new things, not least through their enormous marketing arms and by ensuring that there is a lavish supply of credit.No doubt, even venturesome consumers can overdo their enthusiasm for innovation, just as venturesome investors overdid it during the dotcom bubble.
When he was a provincial official in the 1990s, his catchphrase was "Don't overdo things".Nonetheless, there is some evidence that he is a committed reformer.
This was just one consequence of his tendency to overdo things, a characteristic he acknowledged when he remarked, "I prefer the sins of excess to the sins of omission".
