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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overstress.

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Examples

  • There, property rights are such, more sons, more cattle, to encourage population growth and cattle growth, which then overstresses the ecosystem.

    The Malthusian Zombie, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.

    'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • After all, magical thinking not only overstresses the promises of action, underestimates the grimly repetitive sacrifices that all too likely must follow, and sees these quests as manageable.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • WOOLSEY: Anderson, I think a lot of this overstresses our role as a motivator for what's go on.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006 2006

  • We haven't been letting him exercise as much as he'd like; he always overstresses himself too soon after he's been hurt.

    The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Unless a genetically normal person upsets his regulatory mechanism by being deficient in certain vitamins and minerals or overstresses the body, his blood cholesterol level will not be affected by practical variations in dietary cholesterol.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • Unless a genetically normal person upsets his regulatory mechanism by being deficient in certain vitamins and minerals or overstresses the body, his blood cholesterol level will not be affected by practical variations in dietary cholesterol.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • What this view emphasizes is expressed in MacQuarrie's belief that creatio overstresses the difference between God and his creation, thus tending to make creation an arbitrary act.

    CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

  • Nor has any one a right to say that he overdoes or overstresses their wickedness a jot: he merely shows it, or rather lets them show it, just as it is.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Nor has any one a right to say that he overdoes or overstresses their wickedness a jot: he merely shows it, or rather lets them show it, just as it is.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

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