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What does overtask mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To task too heavily; to give someone or something too many tasks; to overburden.
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Lo, in the very day of your fast ye find a business to do, and all your workmen you overtask.
However, as early as 1993, the Land Force become concerned that sustaining two battle groups in the Balkans would make the maintenance of unit cohesion difficult on rotation and would overtask individuals.
The work is too severe for African thews, and experience has shown it a bad economy to overtask the slave.
But a strong desire to improve and elevate the schools, led him to overtask himself.
I would that you two could put them to shame by budging it, though I fear that I overtask you, for it is of a grievous weight.
Not to reveal too much, and not to tire curiosity or overtask belief, was his daily labour.

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