overstrain

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overstrain (third-person singular simple present overstrains, present participle overstraining, simple past and past participle overstrained)

(transitive, intransitive) To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 134:
  The very phrase of "generous forbearance" shocked her as overstrained; but she did marvel that Lord Avonleigh felt neither pained nor embarrassed in a situation where such sensations seemed inevitable.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her.

Translations edit

subject to an excessive demand

Bulgarian: пренапрягам (prenaprjagam), преуморявам (bg) (preumorjavam)
Dutch: overbelasten (nl)
German: überlasten (de), überfordern (de)
Hungarian: túlfeszít (hu), túlerőltet (hu)
Swedish: överanstränga (sv)

Noun edit

overstrain

excessive strain

Anagrams edit

overtrains