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  • noun Plural form of overexertion.

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Examples

  • Instead they seem to be playing a game of political jujitsu, using the overexertions of the right to give them leverage to flip them totally off the mat.

    The Democrats' Risky Strategy 2008

  • But she takes up an awful lot of room, and one of the hands is now on the verge of nervous prostration from overexertions incurred in packing hay to her, and, it seems she's addicted to nightmares.

    From Place to Place 1910

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