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Definition of Overexerted
1. overexert [v] - See also: overexert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexerted
Literary usage of Overexerted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... dreams of an overexerted imagination in order to be a fantastical and original
story- writer; but even the wildest, most unreal fancy requires a plan, ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"The individual may get an attack whenever the muscle is overexerted. He may get
an attack, but need not, as the presence or absence of pain evidently ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"overexerted himself, that's all, and now he's suffering for it. We were burying
men all the time who died from the same cause. I said that it ought not to ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"During the first three weeks in April he was about outdoors, sometimes walking
over half a mile. Then he overexerted himself, and had a return of ..."
5. The Bookman (1908)
"It is all pleasant and quaint enough for us to read nowadays, but in the act of
writing a good many plain minds must have overexerted themselves abominably. ..."
6. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1885)
"... perceptive faculty must be called into play, while none are overexerted :
there must be a great body of the feeling arising from their moderate action, ..."
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