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单词 over-exercised
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over-exercisedadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊv(ə)rˈɛksəsʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɛksərˌsaɪzd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, exercised adj.
Etymology: < over- prefix + exercised adj. Compare over-exercise v.
1. Exercised or employed to a greater extent than is usual or desirable; overtaxed, over-worried, overly worked up.
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the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > [adjective] > excessively
over-exercised1792
overplied1828
the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or exacting > demanded too greatly of
overtaxed1650
over-exercised1792
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 129 Ever restless and anxious, their over exercised sensibility not only renders them uncomfortable themselves, but troublesome, to use a soft phrase, to others.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 July d12/4 ‘Market participants might have got a little overexercised’ about the volume of credit facilities being arranged.
1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 2 Dec. It may even lead to the provision of financial help to accomplish this through the New Opportunities Fund, but the landowners should not get over-exercised about that just yet.
2. Exercised physically to a greater extent than is usual or desirable.
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1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 May ii. 21/1 ‘Conan the Barbarian’..[is] a sort of swaggering, overexercised ‘Jason and the Argonauts’... Mr Schwarzenegger with his extraordinary Mr. Universe physique, is too much.
1991 M. Atwood Wilderness Tips 170 I already suspect what his wife will look like: overtanned, overexercised, with alert leathery eyes and too many tendons in her neck.
2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 July 42 [She] describes this new species of overexercised female as ‘men-women’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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