0 past simple and past participle of overuse --
1 to use something too often or too much: --
I tend to overuse certain favourite expressions.
This follows the common writing advice that words should not be overused.
Thus, common nouns that were used as proper names formed a category of bare nouns that was clearly overused by children, particularly at younger ages.
As one can expect, the central government will continue spending money on the ground subsidence problem as long as groundwater is overused in this area.
Classifying something as being overused and stale does not immediately call to mind a distinctive linguistic category.
Midwives could not do internal examinations properly and overused harmful medicines.
Despite denials that they made any such claim, there is little doubt that in the first flush of enthusiasm some analytical tools were overused.
Introspection can thus be overused to become a comfortable illusion for the theorist, and an obstacle for science.
Were it not so overused, we would invoke the word "power" to designate what is at stake here.
