In general, overstrainof any kind tends to overfatigue.
Reading on moving trains or looking for a long time at moving pictures may overstrain the eye.
Overstrain is to be avoided, therefore, by paying heed to Nature's fatigue-signals as soon as they appear.
For instance, the increase in diseases of the heart is often due to nervous overstrain combined with either too much or too little physical exertion.
Sidenote: Prevention of Overstrain] Methods of preventing or correcting overstrain vary greatly, according to the kinds of overstrain.
Above all, the overstrain of function, especially of emotional functions, may lead to that exhaustion which produces the state of neurasthenia.
With them, we say, the children are always good, and they are good because the element of nervous overstrain has not arisen.
Neglect of these precautions is the reason why so many cases of measles, on the least and most trifling exposure and overstrain during the two or three weeks following the disease, will blaze up into a fatal bronchitis or pneumonia.
More interesting and important are the experiments which seem to show that high tension alone is capable of producing lesions in arteries which in all respects correspond to Adami's strain hypertrophy and overstrain theory.
At this date it seemed to me that the overstrain of attempting too much, brought upon him by the necessities of his weekly periodical, became first apparent in Dickens.
Other griefs were with Dickens at this time, and close upon them came the too certain evidence that his own health was yielding to the overstrain which had been placed upon it by the occurrences and anxieties of the few preceding years.
Doubtless the long overstrain was telling upon him mentally, though physically the man seemed of wrought steel.
I was called in, to find Miss Mildare breaking down from suspense, and the overstrainof inaction.
This is one of those passages which seem to indicate an unhealthy overstrain which may have been the precursor of the final disturbance of 'his power to shape.
Here is seen marked fatigue, the result of overstrain from excessive stimulation.
Here, if you like, was an example of nervous overstrain; but the soft and yet brilliant light of the restaurant was in itself a sufficient reminder that the overstrain had not been incurred for nothing.
There is nothing we moderns are more apt to brag of than the nervous overstrain of our life.
Miss Goldmark in her valuable study, Fatigue and Efficiency, says that the results of overstrain in the labor of women are manifest in a heightened infant mortality, in a lowered birth rate, and in an impaired second generation.
It is just as impossible that a woman should have a beautiful child if she has been the victim of overstrain for ten years before that child is born, as it would be to get a good crop from absolutely untilled ground.
There was a certain overstrain about him, which made him cushion himself about with non-resistant personalities.
It is my fault that you have been let alone, to have an overstrain and pressure on your mind, when you were not fit for it, and I cannot see any remedy but complete freedom from work.
It must be deuced dreary--yet if you ask me whether I think of you more willingly and endurably thus, or as your image of pale overstrain haunted me after you had left me at the New Year, I shall have no difficulty in replying.
I've neglected no opportunity of news of you since then, though I've picked the article up in every and any way save by writing to you--which my respect for your worried attention and general overstrain forbade me to regard as a decent act.
Why should we overstrainourselves in that which is beyond our strength, or neglect plain duties for others less obvious?
Digestive failures in strictly temperate persons often arise from an overstrain of the mind.
This trouble we may consider in three ways:--First, as the effect of overstrain in using the voice; in this case rest must be taken from speaking or other such work.
The muscle swells, but this is primarily due to the overstrain of the nerves in the sudden effort they make to bear a crushing load on the muscle.
Let them overstrain their brains a little; let them contract their chests, and injure their digestion and their eyesight, by sitting at desks, poring over books.
The pace is fast, and many there are that die or break from overstrainwhen at the height of their usefulness.
Whether we actually work harder, on the whole, than our forebears, and whether there is actually a decrease in the health and endurance of the younger generation today owing to the overstrain of their parents, is open to dispute.
It seems likely also that these injuries are not only due to overstrain among women after marriage and before and after confinement, but result in part from the fatigue endured by adolescent girls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overstrain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
