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Overstretch

verb
1.
Strain abnormally.  Synonym: pull.  "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition"






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"Overstretch" Quotes from Famous Books



... spend all his substance upon the maintenance of such an opinion, and give his life for the defence of it, though in itself it be commendable, yet if he want charity and love to his brethren, if he overstretch that point of conscience to the breach of Christian affection and duties flowing from it, it profits him nothing. Then certainly charity must rule our external actions, and have the predominant hand in the use of all gifts, and in the venting of all opinions."(133) And now, having given ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning



Words linked to "Overstretch" :   pull, wound, injure



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