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Definition of Overstrain
1. Verb. Strain excessively. "He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment"
2. Noun. Too much strain.
Definition of Overstrain
1. v. i. To strain one's self to excess.
2. v. t. To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves.
Definition of Overstrain
1. Verb. subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, or abilities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overstrain
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstrain
Literary usage of Overstrain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey, James Aston (1919)
"Effects of overstrain in General.—The various methods of cold working, previously
discussed, all stress the metal beyond its elastic limit and each produces ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"Notes on the Plastic Deformation of Steel During overstrain* BY ... FOUR ASPECTS
OF FLOW in the plastic deformation of steel by overstrain, such as punching ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"overstrain of the Heart.—Prof. SKITZ has collected many examples of this condition,
and deduces from them their clinical history. It is thus briefly traced. ..."
4. Diseases of the heart and aorta by Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder (1918)
"It is evident from the foregoing examples that muscular efforts which lead to
cardiac overstrain are in themselves merely the exaggeration of ordinary ..."
5. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"Signs of Acute Extreme overstrain.—Extreme precordial oppression, marked dyspnea,
... The effect of acute overstrain upon the illy or even fully compensated ..."
6. Mental Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1921)
"CHAPTER XIII overstrain IN EDUCATION: WASTEFUL PRACTICES FROM one point of view
we would not expect either children or adults to be overtaxed in these times ..."
7. Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1903)
"Evidence of overstrain.—Thus a piece once overstrained, carries, permanently,
unmistakable evidence of the fact, and can be made to reveal the amount of ..."
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