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- verb Present participle of
overtoil .
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Examples
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Salvation is not the by-play of our idle hours, when the mind is wearied with overtoiling for this life, or cloyed with the oppressive customs of the world.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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A crime also and to my grandfather a far more serious one against the indigenous British workers whose jobs were daily being put in jeopardy by alien outworking Jews who wouldn’t think twice before undercutting and overtoiling their fellow Hebrews, to say nothing of Gentiles to whom they acknowledged no bond of amity or solidarity.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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