verb, noun
verb to work too hard; to make a person or an animal work too hard:
[V] You look tired. Have you been overworking? * [VN] The staff are grossly overworked.
noun [U] the fact of working too hard:
His illness was brought on by money worries and overwork.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overwork is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does overwork appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — overwork appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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