Overwrought
[əʊvə'rɔːt] or [,ovɚ'rɔt]
Definition
(-) of Overwork
(p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Overdone, elaborated too much.
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Definition
pa.p. of Overwork worked too hard: too highly excited: worked all over: overdone.
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Examples
- Come, come, Thuvia, I said soothingly; you are overwrought by the danger and hardships you have passed through. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yet she was frozen with overwrought feelings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They were a poor, overwrought band of bondsmen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She has been overwrought lately. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For what seemed an eternity to my overwrought nerves I remained poised thus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Forgive this weakness, Mr. Holmes, I have been a little overwrought. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In his inflamed, overwrought exasperation, he stopped the car, and they sat there, in the middle of the country lane, to have it out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She turned now, her face white, her dark eyes blazing with uncanny, overwrought excitement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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