over used

After her death, Whitney Houston was described, rightly for such an over-used word, as an icon.

After eight continuous years of war, rebuilding that badly over-used Army is becoming an urgent national problem.

If any one group is over-used there will come a time when they will begin to waste away.

This method is well adapted to younger children; and this very reason makes it a danger when over-used with more advanced pupils.

It was as if he were sinking in on himself—as if the great muscles and sinews were relaxing like elastic that has been over-used.

Consonant chords represent stability, satisfaction and, when over-used, inertia.

He was not over-used to his business, for he began the opening chapter in rather school-boy fashion.