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Meanings of overworking in English

Catalan
treball excessiu

The act of working too much or too long.

treball excessiu
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Examples for "overwork"
Examples for "overwork"
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One day he suffered a slight stroke as a result of overwork.
The new yorker
2
All you can do is try to reduce stress and not overwork.
Underground
3
Fellow sufferers tend to overwork, people-please, and experience toxic stress and depression.
The Guardian
4
Others died of starvation, disease or overwork in vast rural labour camps.
The Irish Times
5
I am already half sick with confinement to the house and overwork.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Compiled From Her Letters and Jo...
Usage of overworking in English
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There is a sense of repeated overworking, creating a sumptuous textural quality.
The Irish Times
2
English authors and journalists are abusing and overworking the word intrigue to-day.
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
3
We have always followed the conventional advice about not overworking the dough.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
4
I'd been overworking or overworked, as so many in my calling are.
A Day of Fate
5
I am very well indeed, and hope that you are not overworking.
Benefits Forgot / A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love
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Either you're not doing your job right, or he's overworking you.
Darkness
7
Excepting recent difficulties having to do with me overworking my staff.
Surrender to the will of the night
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For me, it's about using high quality, well-seasoned mince and not overworking it.
The South African
9
I fear all the time that you are now overworking yourself.
The Living Link: A Novel
10
The contractors want bigger profits-tobe got through underpaying and overworking their employes.
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
11
Godfrey, it is evident that you have been overworking and are growing foolish.
Love Eternal
12
People who daily give off seven ounces of carbon are overworking their bodies.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
13
It is folly for a man like you to be overworking.
Shining Ferry
14
The legitimate explanation, that he had been overworking himself, failed to satisfy him.
Plain Tales from the Hills
15
Then, peremptorily, as Bertrand hesitated: I won't have you overworking yourself.
The Rocks of Valpré
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The key to successful muffins lies in not overworking or overbeating the mixture.
Cook yourself thin: skinny meals you can make in minutes
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Translations for overworking
Overworking through the time
Overworking across language varieties
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