overuse

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ use.

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overuse (third-person singular simple present overuses, present participle overusing, simple past and past participle overused)

  1. (transitive) To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often.
    • 2003, Michael L. Raulin, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Education, Inc., page 494:
      Another group argues that the diagnosis is being overused and that many of the diagnosed cases are iatrogenic, or unintentionally shaped or caused by the practitioner
    • 2009 August 22, Nicholas Kristof, “Food for the Soul”, in The New York Times‎:
      On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all.
    • 2018, John W. Barnhill, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, page 451:
      Therapeutic zeal is express in a number of ways, some of them quite obvious, others subtle. A therapeutic manner that is too self-assured and controlling is a dead giveaway. Other obvious signs of therapeutic zeal include getting annoyed or openly frustrated with patients who do not change in the way the therapist desires; "blaming" the patient by vidictively attributing lack of results to more severe pathology than was intially assumed; or overusing such terms as passive aggressive and poorly motivated.

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Noun

overuse (uncountable)

  1. excessive use
    • 2015 July 5, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘Tough Love’ on PBS Examines Custody Battles With the State”, in The New York Times‎:
      There’s an occasional schmaltziness, aggravated by the overuse of a twangy score, but more than enough moments of genuine heartbreak, joy and suspense to make up for it.

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