Definition of Overtreat

1. Verb. (medicine) To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overtreat

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtreat

overtowering
overtowers
overtrade
overtraded
overtrader
overtraders
overtrades
overtrading
overtrain
overtrained
overtraining
overtrains
overtread
overtreading
overtreads
overtreat (current term)
overtreated
overtreating
overtreatment
overtreatments
overtreats
overtrick
overtricks
overtried
overtries
overtrim
overtrimmed
overtrimming
overtrims
overtrip

Literary usage of Overtreat

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

1. A Text-book of Genito-urinary Diseases: Including Functional Sexual by Leopold Casper (1906)
"All the above mentioned measures must not be employed indiscriminately, but used in moderation and for definite objects; otherwise we shall overtreat our ..."

2. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"I have really done it fast, for what it is, and for the way I do it—the way I seem condemned to ; which is to overtreat my subject by developments and ..."

3. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1922)
"So early was to begin my tendency to overtreat, rather than under- treat (when there was choice or danger) my subject. (Many members of my craft, I gather, ..."

4. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1922)
"So early was to begin my tendency to overtreat, rather than under- treat (when there was choice or danger) my subject. (Many members of my craft, I gather, ..."

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