"overforce" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "over- + force",
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    "o‧ver‧force"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, British Poets, The British Poets, Including Translations, Whittingham, J. Carpenter, page 23",
          "text": "But fail'd with overforce, and whizz'd above his back.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Brian Doyle, Glasgow Medical Journal, Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association, Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, page 230",
          "text": "The second part of the pamphlet contains Dr. Cockle's hypothesis respecting the cause of sudden death in this disease. We may say in passing, that we did not find the study of the first part to facilitate in any way the understanding of the second, le believes sudden death is generally caused by syncope in aortic insufficiency, and his theory as to its production is nearly as follows: — The coronary arteries are injected by the systole of the aorta, and during the diastole of the left ventricle. The aortic trunk, through the constant overforce of the ventricle, becomes dilated, loses its elasticity, and generally becomes atheromatous.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Henry Christopher McCook, American Practitioner and News, Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, pages 329–331",
          "text": "Thus we may suppose that, in an entirely natural way, the Supreme Overforce, while governing all creatures and all their actions, has developed in certain arthropods the habit of spinning tubes or cylinders as a protection to the body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Illinois Farmers Institute, Annual Report, Springfield, Ill, page 87",
          "text": "But this vast overforce, this unemployed, unused and unusable force of the city will find some outlet, it must, it is in human nature. There is too much of it to decay where it is, and besides it is constantly and liberally replenished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Frank Parsons, Ralph Albertson, Charles Fremont Taylor, The Railways, the Trusts, and the People, C.F. Taylor, page 226",
          "text": "This line of thought lacks balance and is marked by the overforce which often characterizes the arguments of victims, but there is a kernel of truth in it that is well worth thinking about.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, The 1969 World Book Year Book: The Annual Supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, page 74",
          "text": "Weaponry and overforce must be restrained as much as possible in control of disorders.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Excessive force; violence."
      ],
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          "Excessive",
          "excessive"
        ],
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          "force",
          "force"
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          "violence",
          "violence"
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        "uncountable"
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəfɔɹs/",
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      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəfɔːs/",
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  "word": "overforce"
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  "etymology_text": "over- + force",
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    "o‧ver‧force"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1822, British Poets, The British Poets, Including Translations, Whittingham, J. Carpenter, page 23",
          "text": "But fail'd with overforce, and whizz'd above his back.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, Brian Doyle, Glasgow Medical Journal, Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association, Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, page 230",
          "text": "The second part of the pamphlet contains Dr. Cockle's hypothesis respecting the cause of sudden death in this disease. We may say in passing, that we did not find the study of the first part to facilitate in any way the understanding of the second, le believes sudden death is generally caused by syncope in aortic insufficiency, and his theory as to its production is nearly as follows: — The coronary arteries are injected by the systole of the aorta, and during the diastole of the left ventricle. The aortic trunk, through the constant overforce of the ventricle, becomes dilated, loses its elasticity, and generally becomes atheromatous.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Henry Christopher McCook, American Practitioner and News, Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, pages 329–331",
          "text": "Thus we may suppose that, in an entirely natural way, the Supreme Overforce, while governing all creatures and all their actions, has developed in certain arthropods the habit of spinning tubes or cylinders as a protection to the body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Illinois Farmers Institute, Annual Report, Springfield, Ill, page 87",
          "text": "But this vast overforce, this unemployed, unused and unusable force of the city will find some outlet, it must, it is in human nature. There is too much of it to decay where it is, and besides it is constantly and liberally replenished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Frank Parsons, Ralph Albertson, Charles Fremont Taylor, The Railways, the Trusts, and the People, C.F. Taylor, page 226",
          "text": "This line of thought lacks balance and is marked by the overforce which often characterizes the arguments of victims, but there is a kernel of truth in it that is well worth thinking about.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, The 1969 World Book Year Book: The Annual Supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, page 74",
          "text": "Weaponry and overforce must be restrained as much as possible in control of disorders.",
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        }
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      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəfɔːs/",
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  "word": "overforce"
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