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overstretch

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11 lettersPart of speech verbSorted ceehorrsttvStarts with OEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. strain abnormally

Word origin

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

Used in a sentence

  • The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston, Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake, The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath.
  • […] outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched.

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