2. Verb. (third-person singular of overdrive) ¹
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Definition of Overdrives
1. overdrive [v] - See also: overdrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdrives
Literary usage of Overdrives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"This is the reason that, as soon as large capital enters into the competition,
the small manufacturer overdrives himself, and not only himself but-his ..."
2. Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-day Iniquity by Edward Alsworth Ross (1907)
"If the price of glass jars is fixed by the manufacturer who overdrives little
boys, every competitor must, unless he pos- ..."
3. Handbook of the Law of Torts by Heman Gerald Chapin (1917)
"... without the exercise of proper care lets him on a very hot day to a stranger,
who overdrives him so as to cause his death, may be found to be liable ..."
4. Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan by Michigan (1871)
"... for whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, J overdriving.
works, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, ete- cruelly ..."
5. The Anti-slavery Record by American Anti-Slavery Society (1835)
"... by the abolition of Slavery 7 As a matter of fact, well proved, a planter can
make as much by free labor as by that of slaves, UNLESS he overdrives and ..."
6. Journal of Social Science by American Social Science Association, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, Isaac Franklin Russell (1904)
"... overdrives, or overworks, or deprives of necessary sustenance, or cruelly
beats or mutilates an animal, or procures this to be done to any animal, or, ..."
7. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1904)
"... overdrives, or overworks, or deprives of necessary sustenance, or cruelly
beats or mutilates an animal, or procures this to be done to any animal, or, ..."
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