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third-person singular simple present overstrains, present participle overstraining, simple past and past participle overstrained
(transitive, intransitive) To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination. quotations examples
The very phrase of "generous forbearance" shocked her as overstrained; but she did marvel that Lord Avonleigh felt neither pained nor embarrassed in a situation where such sensations seemed inevitable.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 134
Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her.
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
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