Word Meanings - OVEREXERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exert too much.

Related words: (words related to OVEREXERT)

• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• EXERTION
  The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion
• EXERTIVE
  Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
• EXERTMENT
  Exertion.
• OVEREXERT
  To exert too much.
• OVEREXERTION
  Excessive exertion.
• INEXERTION
  Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.