overworked 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.
overworked 近义词
worn out
overworked 的近义词 10 个
overworked 的反义词 2 个
更多overworked例句
- 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.