0 to make someone or something do more than they can or should do: --
We should have no doubts at the outset of the origins of overstretch.
I strongly support the concerns that they expressed about the impact of overstretch.
When considering manpower and structures, we must consider the impact of overstretch, and the effect of active service absence on service families.
The resources of the quarantine authorities and station were significantly overstretched by the greatly increased numbers of those, both healthy and infected, who had to be accommodated.
Then they move along with the spike, eventually overstretching the mesh geometry and resulting in a loss of precision over a long time period.
For them, of much more pressing concern was the imminent subsistence crisis compounded by increasing and seemingly arbitrary fiscal demands on their already overstretched resources.
These refugees entered an area that was already overstretched.
Although the authors prove to be highly creative, particularly in terms of concept formation and measurement, conceptual ' overstretch' may have occurred in a few places.
