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Crossword-Solution: OVERUSE 7 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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OVERUSE anagram OEUVRES, USEOVER

We have 56 clues for the answer “OVERUSE”

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Operate excessively 1 answer
Employ too often 1 answer
Excessive employment 1 answer
Excessive exploitation 1 answer
Excessive treatment. 1 answer
Exploit to excess 1 answer
Hackneyed repetition. 1 answer
Invite diminishing returns, perhaps 1 answer
Make a cliché 1 answer
Make hackneyed 1 answer
Make into a cliché. 1 answer
Make stale, in a way 1 answer
Muscle ache cause 1 answer
Muscle cramp cause 1 answer
Excessive application 1 answer
Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content 1 answer
Possible reason for a dead phone battery 1 answer
Reason for being trite 1 answer
Reason for muscle aches 1 answer
Reason for wear and tear 1 answer
Repeat irritatingly. 1 answer
Resort to in excess 1 answer
The trouble with clichés. 1 answer
Too frequent practice. 1 answer
Turn into a chestnut 1 answer
Turn into a cliché 1 answer
Waste, perhaps 1 answer
Employ to excess 1 answer
Ache cause 1 answer
Beat. In. To. The. Ground. 1 answer
Cause of depletion 1 answer
Cause of diminishing returns 1 answer
Cause of jading 1 answer
Cause to become a cliché 1 answer
Deplete, perhaps 1 answer
Employ excessively 1 answer
Employ excessively, as muscles 1 answer
Employ in excess. 1 answer
Strain, as a muscle 2 answers
Beat into the ground 2 answers
USE too much 2 answers
DO to death 2 answers
Make trite 2 answers
Rely on excessively 2 answers
Beat to death, so to speak 2 answers
Run into the ground 3 answers
Triteness 4 answers
CAUSE TO THROB OR BEAT RAPIDLY 10 answers
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF AN UNEXPECTED DEATH 10 answers
cause the death of 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble OVERUSE7-letter words that start with O7-letter words that end in E7-letter words containing VE7-letter words containing SE7-letter words with O and V

Sentences with OVERUSE (5)

One should use just enough jargon to communicate precisely and identify oneself as a member of the culture; overuse of jargon or a breathless, excessively gung-ho attitude is considered tacky and the mark of a loser.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Note for the {newbie}: Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The marble facade was worn in places, from overuse he assumed, but nonetheless, traces of its 19th century elegance remained.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Note for the newbie: Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
Overuse of this prefix, or use in more formal or technical contexts, is considered an indicator of lamer status.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002

Quotes with OVERUSE (3)

Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice should never be used." The notion of making a mistake while laying down rules ("Thimk," "We Never Make Misteaks") is highly unoriginal, and it turns out that English teachers have been circulating lists of fumblerules for years. As owner of the world's largest collection, and with thanks to scores of readers, let me pass along a bunch of …
William Safire Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage
Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.
Howard Mittelmark How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
So the first time she and Leo combusted, she'd practically been poised for the breakup. In some inexplicable way, she'd been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn't there something nearly lovely — when you were young enough — about guts churning and tear ducts being put to glorious overuse? She recognized the undeniable satisfaction of the first emotional fissure because an unraveling was still something grown-up and, therefore, life affirming. See? …
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney The Nest
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 43 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).