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Definition of Overstimulate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstimulate

Literary usage of Overstimulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Eclectic Practice of Medicine by Rolla L. Thomas (1906)
"It does not overstimulate, and thus is highly beneficial during this stage. ... Care must be taken not to overstimulate the heart and thus hasten its ..."

2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"... deprives some other part, or parts, of the needful blood supply and nourishment, and that in pursuing such a course we overstimulate and excite that ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"It has helped them to realize their responsibility to men, to understand that they must not overstimulate his already powerful urge of sex; ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"The glare of the tropical sun seems to overstimulate the retina, and it becomes congested and swollen ; if the exciting cause continues in operation, ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"These young married people certainly 'do not overstimulate,' whether they moralise in Mr Carlyle's house or in the Abbey. It may be a vulgar taste, ..."

6. The Tariff History of the United States by Frank William Taussig (1914)
"... would overstimulate this ranch industry. by its promise of excessive profits, and would thus still farther increase the difficulties of the Middle-West ..."

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