Breaking-point synonyms

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extreme tension
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overstrain
To put forth too much physical effort.
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snapping point
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tension
(Physics) Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
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overextension
(Linguistics) Application of a term to too many referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer to all animals.
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Breaking-point Sentence Examples

  • He admired her strength but knew everyone had a breaking point.

  • Piedmontese finances had been strained to breaking-point to organize an army obviously intended for other than merely defensive purposes.

  • The tension which had prevailed between the two kingdoms during the last years of Gustavus Vasa reached breaking point on the accession of Gustavus's eldest son Eric XIV.

  • Of successful mediation in the strict sense there have been many instances: that of Great Britain, in 1825, between Portugal and Brazil; of France, in 1849-1850, when differences arose between Great Britain and Greece; of the Great Powers, in 1868-1869, when the relations of Greece and Turkey were strained to breaking-point by reason of the insurrection in Crete; of Pope Leo XIII., in 1885, between Germany and Spain in the matter of the Caroline Islands.

  • Having fought the oligarchy of privilege, the monarchy next tried to rally it to its side, and all the springs of the old rgime were strained to the breaking-point.

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