overtried

GIUDICE: But ones that I have one are the ones that have been overtried by the prosecution.

CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2009 2009

That while he is very conservative and religious - he tried - actually overtried wanting to be accepted despite his religion - moving too far to the Religious Right.

Pushing Romney in Michigan to screw up the Republicans. Ann Althouse 2008

The second thing, and equally important, is the prosecution overtried this case.

CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2005 2005

The anger in First's tone was not fear-based; it was the indignation of a patient, overtried man.

Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

A strong and overtried man's weakness is not a thing that any one cares to enlarge upon, but without offense it may perhaps be stated that tears fell on the iron-gray hair of Jan's muzzle as he stood there with his soft flews pressed hard against Dick Vaughan's thigh.

Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

That first outcry, indeed, had been unwilled and automatic, the last reactionary movement of an overtried and exhausted body.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

It brought him within too near a view of that horrid brink where overtried nature grows dizzy and whirls down into blackness.

The Summons 1906

This was too much; her overtried patience broke down.

The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

He looked a busy, overtried man, but he had a good-humoured air.

The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

For a time, Warburton saw and heard less of the artist, who made confidantes of Mrs. Cross and her daughter, and spent many an evening with them talking, talking, talking about Rosamund; but this intimacy did not endure very long, Mrs. Cross being a person of marked peculiarities, which in the end overtried Norbert's temper.

Will Warburton George Gissing 1880