Word "OVERUSE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
Synonyms:
overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make use of too often or too extensively
Synonyms:
overdrive

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Excessive exploitation
Too much employment of past American English The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Feb 2025
Utilise to excess The Times Concise 13 Feb 2025
Across to put to some purpose, but exploit too much (7)
Use too often (7)
Possible reason for a dead phone battery LA Times Daily 22 Nov 2024
Excessive treatment concerning American expert initially (7)
Love poetry that has unhappy start can be cliche (7)
Rely excessively on old and extremely vulnerable scheme The Times Cryptic 17 Oct 2024
Finished with American middlemen and their excessive exploitation
The excessive utilisation of various oeuvres (7)
Hackney those desperate oeuvres (7)
After six balls, function appears to be exploitation beyond the norm (7)
Utilise to excess The Times Concise 05 Jul 2023
Run into the ground New York Times 07 May 2023
Finished with American English? Too much of a good thing? The Times Cryptic 18 Oct 2022
Reason for muscle aches USA Today 22 Sep 2022
Run into the ground Wall Street Journal 09 Aug 2022
Draw on excessively The Telegraph Quick 24 Jul 2022
Excessive exploitation very nearly blocks river The Guardian Cryptic 15 Jul 2022
Excessive exploitation very nearly blocks river
Employ excessively, as muscles LA Times Daily 23 Nov 2021
Old poetry university dons do to death The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Oct 2021
Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content The Guardian Cryptic 26 Oct 2021
Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content
Turn into a cliché New York Times 15 Apr 2021
Like our boss, wanting slave ultimately for excessive exploitation The Telegraph Toughie 20 Jan 2021
Strain, as a muscle New York Times 07 May 2020
Discovered novel scheme must be exploitation The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Apr 2020
Excessive utilisation The Times Concise 03 Mar 2020
Do to death The Washington Post 18 Feb 2020
Do to death LA Times Daily 18 Feb 2020
Employ excessively The Telegraph Quick 06 Sep 2019
Make hackneyed Premier Sunday 03 Mar 2019
Stripping lover by deception is exploitation
Make hackneyed Thomas Joseph 18 Jul 2017
Employ to excess LA Times Daily 02 Jul 2017
Employ to excess The Washington Post 02 Jul 2017
Strain is universal in pilot's situation, near Heathrow? The Telegraph Toughie 06 Jan 2017
Employ to excess
Do to death
Cause to become a cliché Newsday 14 Aug 2016
Refer too often to retired vicar dipping in river?
Make trite USA Today 27 Aug 2015
Rely on excessively New York Times 06 Jul 2015
Employ too much The Times Concise 08 May 2015
Excessive employment ever so unlikely, university claimed The Telegraph Toughie 17 Mar 2015
Runner describes very briefly why injury may occur
Rely on excessively
Make trite
Make a cliché
Turn into a chestnut
Make trite
Muscle ache cause
Muscle ache cause
Make hackneyed
Make stale, in a way
Make stale, in a way
Ache cause
Employ excessively
Reason for wear and tear
Operate excessively
Triteness
Muscle cramp cause
Wear out
Cause of jading
Make hackneyed
Beat to death, so to speak
Cause of depletion
Cause of diminishing returns
Beat into the ground
Make hackneyed
Make trite
Waste, perhaps
Deplete, perhaps
Excessive application
Excessive employment
Employ too often
Triteness
Resort to in excess
Beat. In. To. The. Ground.
Excessive treatment.
Employ in excess.
Hackneyed repetition.
Too frequent practice.
Repeat irritatingly.
Excessive application.
Employ excessively.
The trouble with clichés.
Make into a cliché.
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