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Definition of Overstrains
1. overstrain [v] - See also: overstrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstrains
Literary usage of Overstrains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"Overstrains of Adolescence.—Cases of acute cardiac overstrain are especially
frequent in young boys at or about the age of puberty who are growing rapidly ..."
2. Types and Details of Bridge Construction by Frank Woodward Skinner (1906)
"... but there is probably an approximation to uniformity, obtained possibly by
overstrains in certain places ; nevertheless, experience shows that, ..."
3. Types and Details of Bridge Construction by Frank Woodward Skinner (1906)
"... but there is probably an approximation to uniformity, obtained possibly by
overstrains in certain places ; nevertheless, experience shows that, ..."
4. A Florentine Revery by Harry Huntington Powers (1922)
"The Medicean temperament instinctively feels that the reformer who overstrains
human nature, like the builder who overstrains his beams and girders, ..."
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