beat, exhaust, go too far, know no bounds, overelaborate, overindulge, overtask, poop, strain every nerve, tire out, weary
Definitionn. too much strain
Last update: June 12, 2015
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The fusion into one office of the functions of " elders " and " deacons " (still distinguished in the Savoy Declaration of 1658) was partly at least a symptom of the decay of the church-idea in its original fulness, a decay itself connected with the general decline in spiritual intensity which maiked 18th-century religion, after the overstrain of the preceding age. [Please select]
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He started, his nerves were terribly overstrained by now. [Please select]
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He turned, and stood with his hand on the door, and with the action the girl's overstrained nerves gave way. [Please select]
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'You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way.' [Please select]
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He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. [Please select]
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With them, we say, the children are always good, and they are good because the element of nervous overstrain has not arisen. [Please select]
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There was a certain overstrain about him, which made him cushion himself about with non-resistant personalities. [Please select]
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