Word Frequency
overwork
Definitions
verb
(ˌəʊvəˈwɜːk
) mainly tr- also intr to work or cause to work too hard or too long
- to use too much ⇒
to overwork an excuse
- to decorate the surface of
- to work up
noun
(ˈəʊvəˌwɜːk
) - excessive or excessively tiring work
Derived Forms
ˌoverˈworked adjectiveSynonyms
View thesaurus entry = wear yourself out, burn the midnight oil, burn the candle at both ends, bite off more than you can chew, strain yourself, overstrain yourself, work your fingers to the bone, overtire yourself, drive yourself too far, overburden yourself, overload yourself, overtax yourself, practise presenteeism
Quotations including 'overwork'
"overwork: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing"
Translations for 'overwork'
- British English: overwork If you overwork or if someone overworks you, you work too hard, and are likely to become very tired or ill. VERBHe's overworking and has got a lot on his mind.
- Brazilian Portuguese: sobrecarregar de trabalho
- Chinese: 工作过度工作过過度
- European Spanish: trabajar demasiado
- French: se surmener
- German: sich überarbeiten
- Italian: lavorare troppo
- Japanese: こき使う/働きすぎる
- Korean: 과로하다
- Portuguese: sobrecarregar de trabalho
- Spanish: trabajar demasiado
Example Sentences Including 'overwork'
"She would sometimes say `Make me laugh" at bedtime, when she lay there tense after a day of overwork.Lost Children
And, in recognising our finite time on Earth, let us think about eliminating the insidious overwork culture that afflicts so many people.The Australian (2005)
At first he'd ignored the signs; put the dropped coffee cups and aching spine and blurred vision down to overwork.EVERVILLE (2001)
Bazalgette senior took over as chief engineer of the water board when his boss died of overwork.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
Robert Oliver tends to overwork the metaphors as when he talks of wars and battles or when he cites William Butler Yeats later in the book.British Medical Journal (2002)
THE WEEKLY WEB POLL LAST WEEK'S QUESTION: Are you in danger of karoshi (death by overwork )?Globe and Mail (2003)
The lymphocytes, which are part of the body's defence mechanism and reject anything foreign, overwork and reject the hair follicles.Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
There was more proper nursing, and less numbing exhaustion from sheer physical overwork.The White Dove
Yet in England there is only one MP for every Westminster constituency and we don't hear the English MPs complaining of overwork.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
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