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Overworking   /ˌoʊvərwˈərkɪŋ/   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.





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"Overworking" Quotes from Famous Books



... behind for a week: and it suits the funny little jealousy of the M.-A. well enough to see us parted for a time, quite apart from the fact that I shall then be more dependent on her company. She will then glory in overworking herself,—say it is me; and I shall feel a fiend. No letter at all, dearest, this; merely ...
— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous
... to heaven. A similar catastrophe in a department store is considered of hardly sufficient human interest to publish. The name and shame of a woman caught shoplifting in a department store can seldom be kept out of the papers. A department store caught overworking and underpaying its sales-girls—well, that is of no public concern. One of the most striking articles I ever printed recounted the experiences of a sales-girl in one of New York's department stores, yet it was unnoticed by the New York ...
— Commercialism and Journalism • Hamilton Holt
... alms doled out to the poor who are poorer than ourselves, and, if they be offered for the intention of these dear prisoners, the interests of Jesus are hourly forwarded in Mary's Kingdom of Purgatory.... There is no fear of overworking the glorious secretary of that wide realm, the blessed Michael, Mary's subject. See how men work at the pumps on ship-board when they are fighting for their lives with an ugly leak. Oh! that we had the ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... "is in a wretched state. He has been overworking, I fear, and seems to be a nervous wreck. That will account, I have no doubt, for his recent lapses into profanity. He feels rather ashamed of himself; but perhaps I should make allowances. What he needs is rest and quiet. Luckily, I happened to know just the place ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... with the bewitching little grimace which could be made to mean so much or so little. "Isn't this your afternoon? Why shouldn't I be waiting for you?" Then, with a swiftly sympathetic glance for the pale face and the tired eyes: "You've been overworking again. Let's sit out here on the porch where we can have what little air there is. There must be a storm brewing; it's positively breathless in ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde


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