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Definition of Overtrain
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtrain
Literary usage of Overtrain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"He would reach a certain point of excellence, and I would feel like shouting, "Hold!
Make fast!" But on he would go. He would overtrain himself, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"We must not overtrain the investigator until he becomes less than a full man.
The chemists, geologists, and engineers, must not cease to be intelligent and ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"We must not use the microscope till we the eyes. "We must not overtrain the
investigator until he less than a full man. ..."
4. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"... up in every and any way save by writing to you—which my respect for your
worried attention and general overtrain forbade me to regard as a decent act. ..."
5. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... Yellowed with tinge athlete may wear Whom rigorous masters overtrain When they
with scourge of more and more Would macerate him into power. ..."
6. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1890)
"... personal proprieties, the value of various kinds of clothing, physical exercise
and the free and equal development of brain power without overtrain in ..."
7. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1876)
"... of this oversight is more especially evident in schools above the grade of
common schools, as tendency to impair directive energy, and to overtrain the ..."
8. Taxidermy by Leon Luther Pray (1913)
"He also gives full directions for training for condition without danger of going
stale from overtrain^ ing. It is essentially a book for the amateur. ..."
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