overstrain has definitions from the field of physics
1
[ verb ] strain excessively

Synonyms

overextend

Examples

"He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment"

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

In any case but the last , such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; the moral powers no more than the physical and mental , can bear overstraining .

Related terms

strain

2
[ verb ] overstrain oneself

Related terms

strive

3
[ noun ] (physics) too much strain

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strain

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