0 to use something too often or too much:
I tend to overuse certain favourite expressions.
1 the fact that something is used too often or too much:
2 to use something too often or too much:
We all tend to overuse certain expressions.
Although the term 'listening' seems to be overused in the literature on communication and counselling skills, it is undoubtedly the most important.
He found that learners at all proficiency levels overused direct requests and underused nonconventionallyindirect requests (hints).
Kindergartners overused letters from their own first names (or commonly used nicknames) when spelling.
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.
Classifying something as being overused and stale does not immediately call to mind a distinctive linguistic category.
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.
They are not overused; they are just used.
