overlaboured
English
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Pronunciation
editVerb
editoverlaboured
- simple past and past participle of overlabour
Adjective
editoverlaboured (comparative more overlaboured, superlative most overlaboured)
- Overworked, exhausted.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.107:
- Oh, Hesperus! thou bringest all good things— / Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, / To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, / The welcome stall to the o’erlaboured steer [...].
- Laboured, over-elaborate.