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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overexert.

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Examples

  • The result was that they overexerted themselves and generally ignored the medical safeguards their condition required.

    A Q&A with Morton A Meyers about Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs 2010

  • Of course, if they had paced themselves more carefully and not overexerted, they could have kept on pedaling as long as I did.

    CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010

  • Of course, if they had paced themselves more carefully and not overexerted, they could have kept on pedaling as long as I did.

    CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010

  • LEMON: The only reason you did it because you thought you are overexerted yourself on a treadmill, so you wouldn't have even gone in this early, right?

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009 2009

  • Officials say it's crucial to drink lots of fluids and keep from getting overexerted.

    CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006 2006

  • He may have worked so hard to make additional money that he overexerted his body and mind, leading to some kind of deterioration.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • He may have worked so hard to make additional money that he overexerted his body and mind, leading to some kind of deterioration.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • He said he'd overexerted himself, that all he needed was to get back to their base for a snack, but as he swung through the trees on the way up the ridge, he lost his hold on a Palauan apple tree and crashed through a thicket of limbs to sprawl, amid a hail of fruit, on the sharp algae-covered limestone of the ridge.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • She was reminded of her task by the sudden, fierce pain in her overexerted arms.

    The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003

  • “Of course, there is one way to find out for certain if it is caused by sorcery, but one hesitates to suggest it, since you have so recently overexerted yourself using Weathermaker.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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