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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overtask .
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Examples
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It overtasks the power of digestion and is injurious.
Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees
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More's the scandal to a country that has grand material and overtasks it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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More's the scandal to a country that has grand material and overtasks it.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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More's the scandal to a country that has grand material and overtasks it.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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It overtasks no one's strength, and asks no one to go beyond his means and capacities.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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A voice so sweetly modulated that if there were any sarcasm in the words it was lost in the softness of pathos, answered, "Nay, Monsieur Louvier, he rather overtasks the words at my command in thankfulness to those who like yourself, so kindly regard me as something else than a singer."
The Parisians — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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A voice so sweetly modulated that if there were any sarcasm in the words it was lost in the softness of pathos, answered, "Nay, Monsieur Louvier, he rather overtasks the words at my command in thankfulness to those who like yourself, so kindly regard me as something else than a singer."
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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