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Example sentences from the Web for overtaskBut a strong desire to improve and elevate the schools, led him to overtask himself. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders|William A. Alcott The work is too severe for African thews, and experience has shown it a bad economy to overtask the slave. Pictures of Southern Life|William Howard Russell Not to reveal too much, and not to tire curiosity or overtask belief, was his daily labour. Ormond, Volume III (of 3)|Charles Brockden Brown But it is lost if we overtask the perceptions and carry away no idea with us: there is no gain, and positive harm. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, No. 90, June, 1875|Various
verb(tr) to impose too heavy a task upon Words nearby overtaskoversubscribe, oversupply, overswing, overt, overtake, overtask, overtax, over-the-air, over the counter, over the edge, over the hill Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |