Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overtask or overdrive with work; overwork; wear out by toil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To weary excessively; to exhaust.
- transitive verb To overwork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
weary excessively; toexhaust . - verb Overtoiled by that day's grief and travel. — Tennyson.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He gave no heed to Dan, who grew more savage as the slow hours of overtoil dragged by.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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There is, however, one more characteristic of Turner's second period, on which I have still to dwell, especially with reference to what has been above advanced respecting the fallacy of overtoil; namely, the magnificent ease with which all is done when it is _successfully_ done.
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There is, however, one more characteristic of Turner's second period, on which I have still to dwell, especially with reference to what has been above advanced respecting the fallacy of overtoil; namely, the magnificent ease with which all is done when it is _successfully_ done.
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To fits of hypochondria and deep dejection he had, as he himself tells us, been subject from his earliest manhood, and he attributes to overtoil in boyhood this tendency which was probably a part of his natural temperament.
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