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# overwork

«overwork» in Mova's school dictionary: **verb: To work too hard or too long, or to make someone do so** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (overwork, overworks, overworked, overworking); noun (overwork, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) verb: To work too hard or too long, or to make someone do so. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#m1)

2) noun: Too much work that makes someone tired or ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#m2)

3) (overworked, adjective) Tired from too much work; also a word or phrase that is used so often it is boring ("an overworked word"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and life lessons, overwork is a cause of tiredness and stress; people need rest. In history, children and workers in factories were overworked. In writing lessons, teachers call "nice" and "said" overworked words and ask for better ones.

### examples

- The doctor said she was ill from overwork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x1)
- Don't overwork the horse; it needs a rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x2)
- Factory children in the 1800s were badly overworked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x3)
- "Nice" is an overworked word; try "kind" or "lovely". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x4)
- Dad overworks before holidays and then falls asleep on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x5)
- Overworking your muscles can cause injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x6)
- I am so overworked, and I don’t see why I should not have a page as well as other ladies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. The noun is uncountable: "from overwork", not "an overwork". In maths problems, overwork can mean hours above the normal: 50 hours instead of 40 is 10 hours extra.

### In the corpora

- [Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overwork» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overwork/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.