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Definition of Overexerts
1. overexert [v] - See also: overexert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexerts
Literary usage of Overexerts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"... but this is not very severe, unless he overexerts himself, and at times it is
due to his somewhat asthmatic tendency, and is more under the immediate ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Since this time whenever the patient overexerts herself or strains her back there
is a return of these sudden crisis-like attacks of pain over the lower ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1899)
"The poor little rope-dancer, anxious to find favor in the eyes of the young noble,
overexerts himself, loses his balance on the dizzy rope and, ..."
4. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1908)
"... in struggling to use his failing accommodation, often overexerts the latter
for distance and conceals some part of his ametropia. ..."
5. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"... in which, as a result of narrowing of the arteries of the legs, pain develops
if the patient overexerts himself either by walking too fast or too far. ..."
6. The Law of Workmen's Compensation, Rules of Procedure, Tables, Forms by William Richard Schneider (1922)
"... and a finding based upon mere guess, conjecture or possibility will not be
allowed to stand.4 Where an employee overexerts himself and later develops a ..."
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