overwork
verb (used with object)
to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively).
had overworked
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past perfectof overwork.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At one point, too, she told Soderbergh she felt they had overworked the movie's intricate, time-shuffling structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2018
Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had overworked them all the previous winter, sitting up at night and struggling with her grief as she wrote Ormond; and she was now unable to use them without pain.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Ralph had died at Oxford; they said he had overworked himself in trying for honours and then had taken a chill.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Although living out at service, it did not appear that she had overworked.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
