to overexercise
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈɛksərsaɪz/
- Doctors warn that people who overexercise are at risk of injury.
Examples
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Don't overexercise if you're feeling tired.
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If you overexercise, you may experience fatigue and muscle soreness.
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She started to overexercise in an attempt to lose weight quickly.
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She overexercised last week and hurt her back.
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If you overexercise too frequently, you risk serious injury to your body.
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She often overexercises, which has led to several minor injuries over time.
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Many people don't realize that if they overexercise, it can be harmful to their health.
Synonyms
Do something too much, more than needed
To try to do more than you can handle and cause strain
Make more effort than your body or mind can handle
Make too much effort with your body or mind so it is unhealthy
To exercise so much that you feel tired and your body hurts
To put too much strain on the body or mind
To push yourself or something too hard so it breaks and you become very tired
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overexercise comes from over- 'too much' and exercise 'to train or work out', so as a verb it means to train or exercise so much that you cause harm or injury.