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Overwork

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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. Longfellow.

3. To decorate all over.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To work too much, or beyond one's strength.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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