| 单词 | overuse |
| 释义 | overuse (once / 15676 pages) vn To overuse something is to use it too much. If you use your cell phone way too often, texting your friends all day long and playing online Scrabble all night, you overuse it. You'll drive your English teacher crazy if you overuse the word like, and you'll rack up all kinds of extra fees if you overuse your iPad. Overuse is also a noun (with a slightly different pronunciation, just as the noun use sounds different from the verb use) — extravagant or excessive use is overuse. The world's overuse of fossil fuels contributes to the rapid warming of the planet. WORD FAMILYoveruse: overused, overuses, overusing+/disuse: disused, disuses/misuse: misused, misuses, misusing/reuse: reusable, reused, reuses, reusing/usable: unusable, usability, usableness/usage: ill-usage, usages/usance: usances/use: disuse, ill-use, misuse, overuse, reuse, usable, usage, usance, useable, used, useed, useful, useless, user, uses, using/useable: unuseable, useableness/used: ill-used, unused, useder/useful: usefuler, usefulest, usefully, usefulness/usefully: usefullys/usefulness: unusefulness, usefulnesss/useless: uselesser, uselessest, uselessly, uselessness/user: users/using: usings USAGE EXAMPLESIf their arms fail to bounce back in 2017, critics, including Chapman himself, will point to overuse this autumn. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) The phrase “turning point” is overused, but future historians are likely to view the year 2016 as exactly that. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) “Over the summer, I was hugely motivated,” said Phillips, who likely suffered his back issues from overuse training and participating at nationals. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1v make use of too often or too extensively Syn|Hyper overdrive apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose 2n exploitation to the point of diminishing returns Syn|Hyper overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization development, exploitation the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful |
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