Usually means: Repeatedly utilized beyond optimal effectiveness.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. overused: Merriam-Webster
  2. overused: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overused: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overused: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overused, overused: Wordnik
  6. overused: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overused: Wiktionary
  8. overused: Dictionary.com
  9. overused: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. overused: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overused: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overused)

adjective:  used too much, or too often
adjective:  (of a word or phrase) hackneyed or clichéd

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