Meanings of overstressed in English

However, Hill says this is often overstressed in search and rescue stories.

It had been overstressed, certainly, but ships are built to take beatings.

It might even be overstressed in this steel, but what could happen?

Most were young, probably greenhorns still on probation with their cranky, overstressed bosses.

I decided I'd imagined it, or that I was just a bit overstressed.

Had that also been a delusion of an overstressed mind?

It should sound as frayed and stretched as she felt, quivering like an overstressed cable.

For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel.

In the corner of my eye, the minutes of mission time pulsed like an overstressed vein.

His importance, particularly in winning concessions at various stages of the water privatisation bill, cannot be overstressed.

Although previously discussed, the importance of clean, sanitary and attractive containers for shipment can scarcely be overstressed.

Had he been seeing it with his own eyes, he would have put it down to overstressed retinas.

But it is now considered passable, and for the first time in years, Brazil's overstressed transport grid has a new route.

What we didn't care for were the smaller, first-knuckle pockets and edges, which often pressed right into our already overstressed tendons.

And the overstressed life support will take forever to sweep out the CRV, so people will be suffering a long time.

Family organisation was not overstressed, though ties among persons of common descent were recognised, and the young were generally reared by their parents.