overtask
Britishverb
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Even as in the ancient Scriptures there are ideas which seem to overtask the powers of human language.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
It would overtask my poor faculty of description, to give my reader even a faint picture of this rugged battle-field.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
I go on very moderately, for my strength is not great; but I am now connected with a person who is anxious I should not overtask it.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
I've just remembered that I'm an invalid and that if I overtask myself it will be a bad thing for McClellan to-morrow.
From The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
He was quite peremptory in ordering me not to overtask my eyes—forbidding reading and writing, as I have already mentioned.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
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