overstrain

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Between Lohan’s flatness and Bowler’s laboring, their coupling is like a gender-reversed equivalent of Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosting the Oscars, him overstraining to drag her performance along.

From Time • Nov. 23, 2012

One of the greatest dangers to free men everywhere, he says, is the overstraining of the U.S. economy.

From Time Magazine Archive

What the experts like best is that the alltime high appears likely to be achieved at an even pace without the overstraining and overexpansion of manufacturing capacity that helped create the 1957-58 recession.

From Time Magazine Archive

He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply.

From Time Magazine Archive

The springs of authority he had enforced without overstraining them.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David