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Overuse   Listen
noun
overuse  n.  Excessive use.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Overuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms; pollution in the Caspian Sea; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... material things should be worn out with use, and not preserved against decay by any unnatural artifice. Even when broken and disabled from overuse they have a kind of respectability which must commend itself to the observer, and which partakes of the pensive grace of ruin. An old table with one leg gone, and slowly lapsing to decay in the woodshed, is the emblem of a fitter order than ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Overuse" :   apply, overexploitation, use, overutilisation, development, overutilization, exploitation, utilise, utilize



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