Usually means: Excessive use beyond intended purpose.
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  1. overuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overuse: Merriam-Webster
  3. overuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overuse, overuse: Wordnik
  7. overuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overuse: Wiktionary
  9. overuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overuse: Dictionary.com
  13. overuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. overuse: Rhymezone
  15. overuse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. overuse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overuse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overuse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overuse: Medical dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often.
noun:  excessive use

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