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"overuse"
Keywords:
overgrazing
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excessive
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scientists
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exertion
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degradation
To use excessively; to use too often; as, scientists tend to overuse technical terms.
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Excessive use.
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Utilising an excessive amount of the current year's growth which, if continued, will result in land degradation. cf. overgrazing.
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Excessive repeated exertion or shock which results in injuries such as stress fractures of bones or inflammation of muscles and tendons.
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Keywords:
exploitation
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diminishing
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returns
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point
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
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Keywords:
clauses
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coordinate
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target
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errors
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simple
The overuse of some feature (e.g. simple coordinate structures) where some other feature (e.g. relative clauses) is preferred in target-language use. Overuse may or may not result in errors. [11, 52
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Keywords:
extensively
make use of too often or too extensively
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