overtake
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Let these fail, through the blighting influence of despotism, licentiousness, superstition, or slavery, and the national greatness is cankered at the root, and its preservation overtasks the ability of Phocion, of Hannibal, of Cato.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
It overtasks no one's strength, and asks no one to go beyond his means and capacities.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
It overtasks the power of digestion and is injurious.
From Life and Conduct by Lees, J. Cameron
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