over-exerting

It grows tired from arguing with my mind and I confuse that state with fatigue, and think it means I'm over-exerting, when in truth, I'm entering third-stage couch potato-hood.

The Voice of My Body 2010

He seems pretty helpless, but he's also still seriously injured, not only from crashing on Paradise Island, but from over-exerting himself last issue and being buried beneath an exploded building for a bit.

Wonder Woman vs. Doctor Poison: Sensation Comics #2 Michael May 2008

High death rates caused by old men over-exerting themselves I guess.

"Dangerous Thunder and Lightning" Kerron Cross 2006

So I try to keep my hounds sane with once-or-twice-a-week runs early in the morning, up in th Pinon- Juniper woodland where the "quarry" is mostly cottontails that quickly go down holes without over-exerting themselves or the dogs.

The Pack 2005

The trees are manifestly over-exerting themselves, in a witless competition with others which may never boast of painted, scented fruit.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Gone are the days of worrying about over-exerting myself and getting ill from it.

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

I've got loads to write but I can't write it all tonight, partly because it would be too long an entry and take me too long to write (!), and also because I am really achy and tired after over-exerting myself a bit yesterday!

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

Why had she allowed Hawk to goad her into over-exerting herself the way she had?

Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998

Patients treated with such agents, the so-called b-receptor blocking drugs, were able to increase their physical effort without over-exerting heart function and experiencing chest pain as a result.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 - Presentation Speech 1988

Cato took turns at the oars -- not over-exerting themselves, but seeking chiefly to keep the boat's head in proper direction, and to evade the rush of the waves.

Cord and Creese James De Mille