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Definition of Overdoing
1. overdo [v] - See also: overdo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdoing
Literary usage of Overdoing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way to Do Good: Or, the Christian Character Mature by Jacob Abbott (1836)
"It is not that you will be in danger of producing too much happiness, but that
by overdoing your part here, you may aggravate, in the end, the suffering you ..."
2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"Overdoing. He that runs fast, will not run long. It is not the burden, but the
over-burden, that kills the ... Ed. Overdoing is under doing, and evil doing. ..."
3. A Life of Arthur James Balfour by E. T. Raymond (1920)
"Mr. Balfour has always given a slight suggestion of the brilliant amateur, and
in nothing more than in the amateur's vice of overdoing both work and holiday ..."
4. Mental Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1921)
"MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION N Flo. 37. — Overdoing the effort to maintain
erect posture. (See exercise 6, page 37}. ..."
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