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.
The finding that go3 was overused by the participants is pertinent to theorizing about the use of a general classifier by very young children.
To explain kindergartners' overuse of letters from their own names, we postulate that letter frequency is an individual matter for young children.
The supply of object agreement cannot be due to a general strategy of overusing agreement, since object agreement does not occur in prohibited contexts such as intransitive clauses.
While introspection can be useful for the generation of ideas, it can also be overused and become a comfortable illusion for the theorist and an obstacle for science.
The results show that in the cultural, general, and structural categories, the intermediate students overused the more than both the low-level and the advanced students, respectively.
Both tests are probably overused with a high rate of inappropriateness.
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.
They are not overused; they are just used.