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Definition of Overstimulates
1. overstimulate [v] - See also: overstimulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstimulates
Literary usage of Overstimulates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Human body by Henry Newell Martin (1898)
"... the extra stimulus of the food overstimulates the too irritable stomach, just
as a draught of mustard and warm water overstimulates a healthy one. ..."
2. The Human Body: A Beginner's Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene by Henry Newell Martin (1898)
"... the extra stimulus of the food overstimulates the too irritable stomach, just
as a draught of mustard and warm water overstimulates a healthy one. ..."
3. The Human Body: A Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene by Henry Newell Martin, George Wells Fitz (1898)
"... the extra stimulus of the food overstimulates the too irritable stomach, just
as a draught of mustard and warm water overstimulates a healthy one. ..."
4. Constipation and Intestinal Obstruction (obstipation) by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1909)
"This daily dose of medicine overstimulates the bowel, producing a greater activity
than is normal, and, according to Nature's rule, a period of rest and ..."
5. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"In other words, it rapidly overstimulates and exhausts the nervous and cerebral
apparatus, more especially on the sensory side. ..."
6. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"Ambition, to be sure. may lift the sluggard from his bed, the clod from his rut,
the sensualist from his sty; but it overstimulates the mettlesome while the ..."
7. Money and Banking: An Introduction to the Study of Modern Currencies by William Amasa Scott (1903)
"... of the currency through the overissue of bank-notes, overstimulates industry,
thus causing overproduction and the promotion of unsound enterprises. ..."
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