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Definition of Overtasking
1. overtask [v] - See also: overtask
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtasking
Literary usage of Overtasking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Law by John Stolz, William Henry Ryder (1873)
"overtasking THE INTELLECT is an extensive cause ot mental derangement, though
less so than those just considered. The baneful effects of cerebral exhaustion ..."
2. The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers by Robert Burns (1852)
"It appears, however, that the business was overtasking. The ten parishes which
Burns surveyed form a tract not less than fifteen miles each way. ..."