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Overexertion   Listen
noun
Overexertion  n.  Excessive exertion; as, he strained his back from overexertion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Overexertion" Quotes from Famous Books



... the voice user stiffens his throat, these delicate muscles in their spontaneous effort to make the proper adjustments are compelled to contract with more than their normal strength. Every increase in throat stiffness demands a corresponding increase in muscle effort, an overexertion that persisted in must result in injury to the organ itself. Such misuse of the voice is bound to show injurious results. Every throat specialist knows this, and an untold multitude of those who, beginning with promise, have had to give up singing as a ...
— Resonance in Singing and Speaking • Thomas Fillebrown



Words linked to "Overexertion" :   overexert, sweat, travail, elbow grease, exertion



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