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overstrain🔊

To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.

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The very phrase of "generous forbearance" shocked her as overstrained; but she did marvel that Lord Avonleigh felt neither pained nor embarrassed in a situation where such sensations seemed inevitable.
Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her.

Excessive strain.

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