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What (who) is overwork - definition
overwork
¦ verb
1. work too hard.
2. [usu. as adjective overworked] use (a word or idea) too much and so make it weaker in effect.
¦ noun excessive work.
Overwork
·vt To decorate all over.
II. Overwork ·vt To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
III. Overwork ·vt To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
IV. Overwork ·noun Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.
V. Overwork ·vt To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
overwork
(overworks, overworking, overworked)
If you overwork or if someone overworks you, you work too hard, and are likely to become very tired or ill.
He's overworking and has got a lot on his mind...
He overworks and underpays the poor clerk whom he employs.
VERB: V, V n
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Overwork is also a noun.
He died of a heart attack brought on by overwork.
N-UNCOUNT
• overworked
...an overworked doctor.
ADJ
Wikipedia
Overwork
Overwork is the expression used to define the cause of working too hard, too much, or too long. It can be also related to the act of working beyond one's strength or capacity, causing physical and/or mental distress in the process.
Examples of use of overwork
1. Are we really challenging the overwork and micro–wave culture?
2. But the villagers said it was the new disease, death from overwork.
3. During Khmer Rouge rule, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.
4. Now, death–by–overwork lawsuits are common, with the victims‘ families demanding compensation payments.
5. Some were executed, while others died of starvation, disease and overwork.