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Overwork   /ˌoʊvərwˈərk/   Listen
verb
Overwork  v. t.  (past & past part. overworked or overwrought; pres. part. overworking)  
1.
To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
2.
To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. "My days with toil are overwrought."
3.
To decorate all over.


Overwork  v. i.  To work too much, or beyond one's strength.


noun
Overwork  n.  Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.





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"Overwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... patient behaviour of those devoted Sisters through the siege. They bore uncomplainingly all the hardships and discomforts of a flooded bomb-proof shelter, finally returning to their ruined home with any temporary makeshifts to keep out the rain; and whereas, from overwork and depression of spirits, some folks were at times a little difficult to please, not a word of complaint during all those months ever came from the ladies of the convent. They certainly gave an example of practical religion, pluck, ...
— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson
... idle man, but made an excuse of "wanting to overhaul" my trade-room—always a good standing excuse with most supercargoes—as I wanted Loring to have a few hours on shore; for although he was free of fever he was pretty well run down with overwork. So, after some pressure, he consented, and a few minutes later he and Manson were pulled on shore, and I watched them land on the beach, just in front of a clump of wild mango trees in full bearing, almost surrounded ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
... "you overwork that idea, Ross. What we've got here now is a militant majority, and that's what elected Hendricks. You're licked before you begin. And my advice ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... at your portrait, and it frowns upon me. You seem to view me with reproach. The expression is excellent; Fanny wept when she saw it, and you know she is not given to the melting mood. She seems really better; I have a touch of fever again, I fancy overwork, and to-day, when I have overtaken my letters, I shall blow on my pipe. Tell Mrs. Sitwell I have been playing Le Chant d'Amour lately, and have arranged it, after awful trouble, rather prettily for two pipes; and it brought her before me with an effect scarce ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of course, an effect of overwork and disease. Irving quotes Scott as saying: "It is all nonsense to tell a man that his mind is not affected, when his body is in this state." (Irving's ...
— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball


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