🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

过度劳累

Pronunciation / Transliteration: guòdù láolèi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Overexertion/ˌoʊ.vɚ.ɪɡˈzɝː.ʃən/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"过度劳累会导致免疫力下降。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act or an instance of overworking or exerting oneself excessively, beyond normal physical or mental capacity.

    "The athlete suffered from physical overexertion during the final minutes of the marathon."
  2. 2

    A state of exhaustion or strain resulting from putting too much effort into an activity.

    "Doctor's orders advised him to avoid heavy lifting to prevent muscular strain caused by overexertion."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix over- (meaning 'excessive') combined with the noun exertion, which traces back to the Latin exserere, meaning 'to thrust out' or 'to stretch forth'. The compound developed in late modern English to describe the act of pushing oneself beyond safe physical or mental limits.

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