Crossword-Solution: OVERUSED 8 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Evolved in mid-1992 as a response to notably silly postings repeating urban myths on the Usenet newsgroup _alt.folklore.urban_, after some posters complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to newbies was being overused.

But when a man has overused his liver till it will not act for him any longer, it is not well for him to resolve that he will forget the weakness of his organ just as he sits down to dinner.

Allowing for corrections and for the fact that the light was growing dim, as though from an overused battery, the message runs: ‘Help.

She carried nuts, and candy, and apples in her pocket, had pickles and cake in her room, and studied and munched until it was no doubt a disturbed digestion, rather than an overused brain, that caused the "fits." If you will eat regularly of plain meat, vegetables, fruits, cereals, milk and eggs, plainly prepared, and avoid rich pastries, cakes, puddings, pickles and sweetmeats, you will have compassed the round of healthful diet, and need give yourself very little anxiety in regard to anything more.

But any nerve that is overused will apparently be affected the same way, and as many outdoor workers take some whiskey straight pretty regularly, it is not surprising to find that some of them have an idiosyncrasy and develop a low grade alcoholic neuritis.