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Definition of Overtasks
1. overtask [v] - See also: overtask
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtasks
Literary usage of Overtasks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Massachusetts Bible Society (1863)
"Where the lessee fails to furnish a proper supply of food or clothing, or does
not furnish proper quarters, or overtasks his laborers, or otherwise abuses ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... her internal schisms and bitter animosities, are a deep sorrow to all
right-hearted men. The world is full of evil ; it overtasks all the agency, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"He is a man of active intelligence and has for many years been subject to the
incessant strain of a business which clearly overtasks his ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"More 's the scandal to a country that has grand material and overtasks it.
A blazing disaster ends the chapter!' This was talk of an injured veteran. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"It is true that he not unfrequently overtasks himself— sometimes his scenes are
too thrill- ingly terrible—sometimes they border on the repulsive, ..."
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