overstretched's Usage Examples:

protective equipment, diagnostic tests and oxygen to countries with overstretched healthcare systems.

establishment of soup kitchens in Ireland to relieve pressure from the overstretched Poor Law system, which could not adequately feed people suffering from.

subsystems must have failed if joint instability occurs, usually a torn or overstretched ligament.

Army, counterattacked from the north and threatened to surround the overstretched German III Motorized Army Corps.

believed the existing fleet was in danger of becoming outmoded and overstretched.

They were to help the overstretched RIC maintain control and suppress the Irish Republican Army (IRA), although.

in the face of strong UN defences and as their supply lines became overstretched and by 18 February they had begun to withdraw across the entire front.

The Thebans overstretched themselves strategically and, in their efforts to maintain control of.

During her time as abbess she overstretched the abbey's finances by purchasing a refugium in Brussels.

Hungarian frontier and its communication lines were now dangerously overstretched.

northern bank of the Yangtze River when possible, and if the enemy was overstretched and provided the needed opportunity, the communist would establish new.

a medical condition that affects dogs in which the stomach becomes overstretched and rotated by excessive gas content.

operation that cuts and removes excess tissues (glandular, adipose, skin), overstretched suspensory ligaments, excess skin from the skin-envelope, and transposes.

was undermined by ambitious wars and construction projects, which overstretched its resources.

Northern Echo's Steve Pratt suggested that, at 120 minutes, the plot was overstretched.

In 1965, Whitesides overstretched themselves financially, and the company was bought by Rowntrees in 1967.

Ghanaian returnees from Libya and 7,000 returnees from Cote d'Ivoire overstretched the board's resources.

behalf of the Ministry of Supply as, by then, the Ministry of Supply was overstretched in regards recruiting and managing the workers needed to staff these.

of the credit for the war, as a Spanish force took advantage of the overstretched British Navy and took several of their colonies in the Caribbean and.

winter, and the fact that its forces in the southern Soviet Union were overstretched near Stalingrad, using weaker Romanian troops to guard their flanks;.

Synonyms:

injure; wound; pull;

Antonyms:

push; repel; abduct; adduct;