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Definition of Overworked
1. overwork [v] - See also: overwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overworked
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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