0 past simple and past participle of overuse
1 to use something too often or too much:
I tend to overuse certain favourite expressions.
Cocoa farms were not adequately sprayed and farmers could not afford to apply fertilisers to overused land (interviews).
Kindergartners overused letters from their own first names (or commonly used nicknames) when spelling.
These restrictive assumptions have been overused in the literature, since they are sometimes not realistic and sometimes not necessary.
The finding that go3 was overused by the participants is pertinent to theorizing about the use of a general classifier by very young children.
He found that learners at all proficiency levels overused direct requests and underused nonconventionallyindirect requests (hints).
The term ' emerging infection/disease ' is greatly overused today.
Although the term 'listening' seems to be overused in the literature on communication and counselling skills, it is undoubtedly the most important.
Were it not so overused, we would invoke the word "power" to designate what is at stake here.
