overexerted

verb

past tense of overexert
as in overworked

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  1. exerted
  2. exercised
  3. tried
  4. essayed
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  • Beijing has exerted greater institutional control in Tibet since Xi Jinping became the country's president in 2012.
    — Kanishka Singh, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Beijing has exerted greater institutional control in Tibet since Xi Jinping became the country’s president in 2012.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 3 July 2026
Definition of exerted
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  • Days after the listing, SpaceX exercised an option to buy Cursor for $60 billion in SpaceX stock.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised.
    — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
Definition of exercised
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  • One of Robinson's attorneys, Michael Burt, tried to inject uncertainty into the case Thursday by challenging the reliability of ballistics tests on a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk’s body.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • The denial was a hit to Wilber’s spirit, but Yadira tried to calm the restless teenager.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of tried
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  • There is a secondary love affair being essayed here beyond the one with Robert Smith, and Rodrigo did a fairly effective job in pre-release commentary of explaining how, thematically, this would be a two-part album.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Definition of essayed
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