overworked

/verb oh-ver-wurk; noun oh-ver-wurk/US // verb ˌoʊ vərˈwɜrk; noun ˈoʊ vərˌwɜrk //

劳累过度,过度劳累,工作过度,过度疲劳

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : 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.

v.无主动词 verb

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- : to work too hard, too much, or too long; work to excess: You look as though you've been overworking.

n.名词 noun

adj.worn out

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Doctors, who were overworked and underpaid, began taking bribes to provide care.
When he emerges, he makes slow, overworked progress towards the boat, which is now about a hundred meters away.
How could we trust our lives in the hands of people that are overworked, starved and not given their just compensation?
Physicians feel overworked and patients feel “under served.”
And some reptiles add a fourth function to the overworked cloacal repository–that of respiration as well.
What weighed with me, too, was the fact that I was undoubtedly overworked and my health was suffering.
Kilkelly was a busy, but never seemed an overworked man, due I suppose to some constitutional quality he enjoyed.
When they saw that their complaints were futile they sent over one socialist leader to have it out with the overworked purser.
The floor was constantly inundated here by several defective and overworked water-faucets and a leaky trough.
Why, I almost insulted them; told them Adot was a barren field, overworked and already supplied with their spiritual needs.