(v. t.) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
(v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
(v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
(v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they emerge into the daylight, the chancellor could, once again, be left looking like a salesman who can’t resist overdoing the patter.
(2) We have moved far from the ancient Greek principle "Meden agan," "don't overdo anything."
(3) Everyone is guilty of overdoing it on Trumpy , because Donald Trump is a jackass of galactic proportions.
(4) Adair Turner, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, told BBC2's Newsnight last week that the government could be overdoing stimulus to the housing market, which may cause future problems.
(5) This paper discusses whether countries in the "developed" world are overdoing it, thereby maybe hampering the essential use of chemicals in the developing countries.
(6) We want to take users out of hiding and create a situation where we can say: ‘You are overdoing it.
(7) Patients are often so anxious to return to activity that they overdo, leading to a decrease in function with a rapid return to the results of inflammation.
(8) Being half shut protects you from overdoing it, but there are still plenty of fabulous works, with time and space to enjoy those that catch your eye.
(9) We must not overdo it.” The World Cup was expanded from 24 teams to 32 in 1994 but most proposals for further expansion involve convoluted mathematical contortions or leave open the possibility of making the group stages unbalanced.
(10) to be on the overdoing side rather than on the underdoing one in a futile attempt at retaining the function.
(11) He added: "There is a danger in overdoing the gloom.
(12) Sun damage accumulates over time so avoiding sunburn – and sunbeds – is key as well as getting to know your skin type so you don’t overdo it on the beach or even in the garden.
(13) "But a lot of the reason why those endless weekends were happening in New York," he goes on more matter-of-factly, "and why there was a lot of overdoing it, was because the party was over.
(14) I was overdoing the last bit, as I mentally prepared to step on to the red carpet, enter the pre-ceremony champagne area, witness the ceremony itself and then mingle with the A-listers at the parties afterwards, like one of the grinning poor relations in The Pickwick Papers.
(15) In the US, meanwhile, opioid overdoes deaths increased 200% between 2000 and 2014 alone, and admissions to treatment for opioid problems skyrocketed.
(16) According to the degree of adjustment to the new clinical condition, it is possible to distinguish patients who react developing an anxious-depressive status (10-20%), those who realistically adjust to the new functional condition allowed by the pacemaker (70-80%) and those who, denying their disease, tend to overdo in their physical performance (10-20%).
(17) Jones positions herself as a sage elder counselling Gaga, Cyrus, Rihanna, Minaj, and others, about not overdoing sexuality and controversy, but she takes a few other swipes as well.
(18) So while it’s unquestionably the case that some people drink far too much for their own or society’s good and ought to rein in or stop, most people don’t overdo it.
(19) And don't overdo it with the housing allowance – avoid any postcode in which Goldman Sachs partners live.
(20) You can overdo the comparisons, but let’s at least agree that Trump’s America and Brexit Britain share the same common tragedy: a large chunk of the public that’s had enough of the same-old failed orthodoxy, a technocratic elite that also knows it’s no longer working – and a political class unable to grasp any real alternatives.
Overtax
Definition:
(v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.
Example Sentences:
(1) This overtaxes the attention, mechanical memory, and patience of the brain injured pupil.
(2) The girl had not attended school regularly for almost 2 years, had stayed at home and was overtaxed psychosocially.
(3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
(4) The voice prosthesis renders possible a reliably reproducible voice, which is superior (period of uninterrupted sound production, basal frequency, voice intensity) to the other techniques (esophageal speech, external vibrators, other surgical reconstructive measures), but has the following disadvantages: high initial phonation pressure, formation of granulation tissue around the voice shunt, blockage or leakage of the prosthesis or the voice shunt, displacement of the prosthesis, spontaneous occlusion when the prosthesis is accidentally removed, overtaxing the patients who have difficulties in replacing and cleaning the prosthesis.
(5) By assuming the workload associated with breathing, mechanical support averts ventilatory failure, prevents respiratory arrest, assures CO2 removal and pH homeostasis, while permitting the overtaxed respiratory muscles to replenish energy reserves as the primary process is addressed.
(6) The water from an overtaxed sewer system floods my basement and again I pump it out.
(7) Indirect antidepressive treatment consisting in: counselling of the parents or treatment for them (psychotherapy, psychotropic medication), family therapy, or admission of the child to a home; learning and teaching hygiene: preventing the child from becoming overtaxed as a result of his difficulty in learning and his impaired performance, recourse to conditioning procedures, demotion to a lower class at school, or transference to another school; initial and follow-up psychotherapy or cognitive therapeutic procedures in cases of 'endogenous' depression.
(8) The demand for amniocentesis and laboratory analysis of the fluid will soon overtax existing facilities.
(9) Compared with a control group of "only aggressive" patients, organic brain damage owing to complications of pregnancy or delivery, overtaxing upbringing by the parents and absence of a positive father figure could be demonstrated in the zoosadists.
(10) Rock has suggested that inverted faces are difficult to recognise because they overtax a mechanism for correcting disoriented stimuli.
(11) Growth of the rat facial skeleton over a 40 day period from birth was examined relative to 8 length and 4 width parameters of animals subject to somatic growth retardation experimentally induced by overtaxing the maternal lactational capacity by means of excessively large cross-fostered litters.
(12) All patients are overtaxed by their situation; the conversion reaction is used as a means to express anxiety and maintain self-assertion at the same time.
(13) Although the performance of disturbed behaviour has adaptive value, it simultaneously demonstrates an overtaxed and unhealthy state.
(14) To test the hypothesis that this is in part due to dysfunction of overtaxed inspiratory muscles, we studied 3 patients with BIDP before and after 2, 5, and 18 wk of daily intermittent external surface negative pressure ventilation (ENPV).
(15) Both reactions lead to an inadequate handling of the child and in consequence to overtax or overprotection.
(16) Such overload might concurrently or sequentially also overtax a suggested limited right hemisphere language capacity, in terms of the hypothesis, accounting for the right-sided pain sometimes presenting in these cases.
(17) Indeed, in patients with hypercapnia, increased exercise might overtax respiratory muscles, which are weak relative to those of eucapnic patients.
(18) When humans are primarily impaired or overtaxed in their more elaborate abilities of coping with the social environment they seem to fall back on more primitive coping behaviours known from other mammals in severe conflict situations.
(19) Daimler’s goals are more straightforward: to make the business of long-haul trucking less reliant on overtaxed drivers.
(20) The problems of most patients were not emergencies; most had experienced symptoms of their presenting complaint for more than six months, finally overtaxing the coping capacities of their caregivers.