- adjectiveoverworked (adjective) · over-worked (adjective)
- (of a person) having to work beyond their capacity or strength:"overworked nurses do not have time to adequately prepare patients for discharge" · "tired, overworked, demoralized staff"
- used to excess:"the strain of overworked muscles"
- (of a word, phrase, or idea) used so often that it has lost its effect:"it's an overworked analogy" · "for once the overworked phrase “the end of an era” is apposite"
verboverworked (past tense) · overworked (past participle)- cause (someone) to work beyond their capacity or strength:"employers should be aware that overworking their employees comes at a cost" · "his bodyguards claim they've been overworked and underpaid for years"
- work too hard:"the doctor advised a complete rest because he had been overworking"
- make excessive use of:"we aren't building new refineries so we have overworked our old ones" · "she had been overworking her muscles during training"
- use (a word, phrase, or idea) so often that it loses its effect:"we all overworked the phrase “gets it” during the last administration"
Similar and Opposite Wordsadjective- (of a person) having to work beyond their capacity or strength:
verb- cause (someone) to work beyond their capacity or strength:
- work too hard:work too hardwork like a Trojan/horse/slavework/run oneself into the groundwear oneself to a shadowdrive oneself into the groundwork day and nightovertax oneselfovertax one's strengthkill oneselfburn oneself outdo too muchoverdo itstrain oneselfoverburden oneselfoverload oneselfdrive/push oneself too hard
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