overuse

Speech parts

1. overuse - Noun

2. overuse - Verb

Meaning

make use of too often or too extensively

exploitation to the point of diminishing returns

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

overdrive overexploitation overutilization overutilisation use development tax wear exercise abuse strain exhaust exploitation drain maximize
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Antonyms

use economy assistance save assist encourage
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Hypernyms

use development apply employ exploitation utilize

Examples

Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse. Patch Adams

That phrase, "loss of innocence," has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place. Christopher Hitchens

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans. Tom Hodgkinson

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it. Al Michaels

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. Denis Waitley

The words I overuse are all adverbs. Sam Shepard

Close letter words and terms

overurbanization overurge overusage overused overused term overuser