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overworked

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1. overworked - Adjective

2. overworked - Verb

Meaning

of Overwork

Source: Webster's dictionary

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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself. John Ruskin

Man's own form in space – his body – was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery – because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy. Willem de Kooning

He was one of those scientist-artists who comes along every few centuries to justify the existence of that overworked word "genius.”. Roger Zelazny

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. Anna Howard Shaw

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. Peter Zumthor

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. Alicia Keys

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