Definition of Overworked

1. Adjective. Being subjected to too much work ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overworked

1. overwork [v] - See also: overwork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overworked

overwithheld
overwithhold
overwithholding
overwithholds
overwits
overwitted
overwitting
overword
overworded
overwordiness
overwording
overwords
overwordy
overwore
overwork
overworked
overworking
overworks
overworld
overworld map
overworld maps
overworlds
overworn
overwound
overwrap
overwrapped
overwrapping
overwraps
overwrest
overwrested

Literary usage of Overworked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"A garrison overworked for months, its officers and .enlisted men ... My force is, as you know, too weak and much overworked, only eight hundred men, ..."

2. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"AN Overworked WORD WE wake up and make up, We rake up, we fake up, And use the word " up " when we can. We drink up and think up, We kink up and shrink up, ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"Jerome's " Three Men in a Boat " is a delightfully humorous recital of the experience of three overworked young Englishmen, who made a boating trip, ..."

4. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and, if requisite, a vigorous use of those gouty legs, that were so shamefully overworked on the morning the gallant Perey ..."

5. Effective English: Junior by Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss (1921)
"But the expression was soon overworked. In every subscription to be raised ... Overworked Words. — This overworking of words, making a few words or phrases ..."

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