overuse
to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
excessive use: to strain one's voice through overuse.
Origin of overuse
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How to use overuse in a sentence
But I never used “awesome,” which has been ruined by over-use, to the point where it now means nothing more than OK.
Thus it is that over-use, in sports and games, of the muscles of shoulder and chest, occasions atrophy of mammary glands.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyDeveloping creatures should never be allowed to over-use function or faculty.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyIt is liable to traumatic affections from a fall on the shoulder, pressure, or over-use of the limb.
Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander MilesSome people suggest by the over-use of head tones that they depend altogether on what they know to achieve success.
Certain Success | Norval A. Hawkins
The unskillful over-use of head tones may ruin a salesman's best opportunity to gain a coveted object.
Certain Success | Norval A. Hawkins
British Dictionary definitions for over-use
to use excessively
excessive use
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