overwork 的 3 个定义
- to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work: Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
- to work up, stir up, or excite excessively: to overwork a mob to the verge of frenzy.
- to employ or elaborate to excess: an appeal for sympathy that has been overworked by many speakers.
- to work or decorate all over; decorate the surface of: white limestone overworked with inscriptions.
- to work too hard, too much, or too long; work to excess: You look as though you've been overworking.
- work beyond one's strength or capacity.
- extra or excessive work.
overwork 近义词
overdo
work too hard
更多overwork例句
- Today’s work schedules, with their combination of “overwork and then no work,” in many ways mirror the conditions that preceded the reforms of the 1930s, Loomis said.
- Despite stress, depression, and overwork, women still want to work from home.
- One employee claims he was fired for raising concerns about overwork.
- One delivery driver recently set himself on fire to protest unpaid wages while at least one other collapsed and died from apparent overwork.
- This should cover everything from the furniture and equipment being used, to factors such as isolation, overwork and a failure to take proper breaks.
- By then she had only three years to live, and was becoming frail from overwork.
- Chronic starvation, overwork, disease, and freezing temperatures were as effective as the bullet, only slower and crueler.
- Dickens died young, at 58, worn out from overwork, from the sheer strain of being himself.
- This is a very dark frame of mind, consequent on overwork and the conclusion of the excruciating Ebb Tide.
- Thyrsis came home beaten and crushed, worn out with overwork and worry, his heart black with rage and bitterness and despair.
- It is much more probable that one of the bridges has broken through overwork.
- Their lives are a lesson to a generation that fears intellectual overwork.
- And we cannot all escape overwork however valiantly we fight our battle with non-essentials.