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
I had overworked my head; I could n't go on.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
Lucian again shivered with a thrill of dread; he was afraid that he had overworked himself and that he was suffering from the first symptoms of grave illness.
From The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
She had overworked them all the previous winter, sitting up at night and struggling with her grief as she wrote 'Ormond.'
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
