From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overwork \O'ver*work"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Overworked}or {Overwrought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overworking}.]
1. To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
My days with toil are overwrought. --Longfellow.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "overworked": arabesque, baroque, busy, chichi, commonplace, elaborate, elegant, fancy, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, frilly, fussy, hackneyed, high-wrought, labored, luxuriant, luxurious, moresque, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overwrought, picturesque, platitudinous, pretty-pretty, rich, rococo, stereotyped, trite, truistic
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