overexertion
noun
overexertion is a noun meaning “excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-V-E-R-E-X-E-R-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of overexertion is overexertions.
What does overexertion mean?
noun
- 1
excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce overexertion?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-overexertion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of overexertion
- overexertions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is overexertion?
Overexertion appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Overexertion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action of excessively exerting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Überforderung, Überanstrengung |
| Spanish | sobresfuerzo, sobreesfuerzo, tralla, lote, tute, julepe |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does overexertion come from?
From over- + exertion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).