overworked
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overworked (comparative more overworked, superlative most overworked)
- Subjected to too much work.
- Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.
- 2013 October 19, “Preparing for success”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858:
- Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers […] argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget.
- Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal. (of a word, phrase, etc.)
- overworked, unaffecting cliches
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subjected to too much work
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overworked
- simple past and past participle of overwork