Overstrain
[,әuvә'strein]
Definition
(noun.) too much strain.
(verb.) strain excessively; 'He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To strain one's self to excess.
(v. t.) To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves.
Checker: Nona
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Exaggerate, overcharge.
Checker: Otis
Definition
v.t. and v.i. to strain or stretch too far.—n. too great strain.—adj. Overstrained′ strained to excess: exaggerated.
Edited by Allison
Examples
- I must see she does not overstrain herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Maura