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Definition of Overtreat
1. Verb. (medicine) To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtreat
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtreat
Literary usage of Overtreat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Genito-urinary Diseases: Including Functional Sexual by Leopold Casper (1906)
"All the above mentioned measures must not be employed indiscriminately, but used
in moderation and for definite objects; otherwise we shall overtreat our ..."
2. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"I have really done it fast, for what it is, and for the way I do it—the way I
seem condemned to ; which is to overtreat my subject by developments and ..."
3. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1922)
"So early was to begin my tendency to overtreat, rather than under- treat (when
there was choice or danger) my subject. (Many members of my craft, I gather, ..."
4. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1922)
"So early was to begin my tendency to overtreat, rather than under- treat (when
there was choice or danger) my subject. (Many members of my craft, I gather, ..."
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