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overstress
verb as in magnify
verb as in overplay
Example Sentences
The building’s walls and columns are overstressed, which means they may not be able to support the floors above them.
But now, you see the fatigue of being overworked and overstressed and everything compounding because of the alcoholism and the mental illness, and it’s f— Christmas and the expectations that go along with that.
“I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point,” envoy Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N.
Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.”
A warmer world also causes more surface water to evaporate, leaving less to seep through the ground to replenish overstressed aquifers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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