What is "overstressing"

Usage examples of "overstressing".

The risk of altering the past, changing history and thereby overstressing the fabric of reality, would be too great.

Later he remarked that at first he had felt Knecht's remarkable calm and iciness at this moment as if it were a blow and an insult, a slap in the face and a betrayal of their old friendship and intimacy, an almost incomprehensible overstressing and anticipation of his impending position as supreme head of the Glass Bead Game.

At the high power settings he planned to use, if both levers didn't go forward at precisely equal rates, the resulting asymmetrical thrust would whirl the touchy little launch around like a child's pinwheel-probably overstressing its spaceframe.