overstrain's Usage Examples:

The indefensible indecency and overstrained sentimentality are on the surface; but after a time every repellent defect is forgotten in the enjoyment of the exquisite literary art.

He had resigned his editorship of The Tribune immediately after the nomination; he now resumed it cheerfully; but it was soon apparent that his powers had been overstrained.

overstrained waste disposal facilities was not unnaturally a consideration in some of the policy issues that arose.

people overstrained with wanting to do, people overstrained with wanting to be.

Years elapsed, however, before his nerves, which had been so perilously overstrained, recovered their tone.

It is too long, the sentiment is overstrained, and severe moralists have accused it of a certain complaisance in dealing with amatory errors; but it is full of pathos and knowledge of the human heart.

The combination of ductility, which lessens the tendency to break when overstrained or distorted, with a very high limit of elasticity, gives it great value for shafting, the merit of which is measured by its endurance of the repeated stresses to which its rotation exposes it whenever its alignment is not mathematically straight.

The first led him into a teleological system so minute and overstrained as to defeat its own end; the second was successfully attained by giving greater precision and certainty to medical and surgical practice in difficult cases.

Any attempt to continue expansion at this rate would lead to inflationary overstrain.

overstrain of the neck muscles and ligaments.

The cable must not be overstrained in the process of submersion, and must be paid out at the proper rate to give the requisite slack.

Synonyms:

strain, extend, overextend,

Antonyms:

decrease, shorten,