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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overtry .
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Examples
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GIUDICE: But ones that I have one are the ones that have been overtried by the prosecution.
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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.
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The second thing, and equally important, is the prosecution overtried this case.
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The anger in First's tone was not fear-based; it was the indignation of a patient, overtried man.
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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.
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That first outcry, indeed, had been unwilled and automatic, the last reactionary movement of an overtried and exhausted body.
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It brought him within too near a view of that horrid brink where overtried nature grows dizzy and whirls down into blackness.
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This was too much; her overtried patience broke down.
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He looked a busy, overtried man, but he had a good-humoured air.
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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.
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