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Definition of Overtask
1. v. t. To task too heavily.
Definition of Overtask
1. Verb. To task too heavily, to give someone or something to many tasks; overburden ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtask
1. to task too severely [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtask
Literary usage of Overtask
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Culture demanded by modern life by Edward Livingston Youmans (1897)
"And so, when we impose on the intellects of boys, at the same tender age, a burden
like that of the grammar of the Latin or the Greek language, we overtask ..."
2. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1855)
"The more diluted our food, provided we do not overtask the energies of the
intestinal canal, in the conveyance of it to its destination, the better for the ..."
3. Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by John Hughes Bennett (1858)
"Nothing is more common than dyspepsia among literary men who overtask the mental
faculties ; among young persons of very excitable minds ; and among ..."
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