overwork

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/ˌəʊvəˈwɜːk/

verb 4noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

consequent, ill, little, natural, poor, sick, tired, wise

VERB + OVERWORK

comes, die, died, effects, exhausted, got, killed, maintains

OVERWORK + NOUN

characteristic, health, importance, meals, pansay, slew

PREP.

down, from, on, out, than, through, up, upon

Definitions

verb

To make (someone or something) work too hard.

to overwork a horse

For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.

To work too hard.

To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour.

My days with toil are overwrought.

To decorate all over.

noun

A superstructure.

Excessive work.

Various disordered conditions consequent upon overwork, which are characteristic of modern civilisation.

He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. He maintains that overwork slew Pansay who died under his hands about three years ago.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of working too much or too long

overworking

verb — work excessively hard

exploit

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

to overwork a horse

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The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water

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Various disordered conditions consequent upon overwork, which are characteristic of modern civilisation.

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He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. He maintains that overwork slew Pansay who died under his hands about three years ago.

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[…] it had obtained from its constituents rather antiquated and inefficient equipment, which scarcely stood up to overwork; […].

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