overtask

/ ˌəʊvəˈtɑːsk /

verb

It would overtask my poor faculty of description, to give my reader even a faint picture of this rugged battle-field.

The work is too severe for African thews, and experience has shown it a bad economy to overtask the slave.

Lo, in the very day of your fast ye find a business to do, and all your workmen you overtask.

Old barriers have disappeared; while new difficulties are being created, of a magnitude to overtask the faith of the strongest.

Even if she took the car, she would be obliged to carry it a portion of the way, and she felt that it would overtask her strength.

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