overtaskv.
/ˌəʊvəˈtɑːsk/, /ˌəʊvəˈtask/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtæsk/ transitive. To impose too hard or heavy a task on; to make excessive demands on.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]
wearyc897
tirea1000
travailc1300
forwearya1325
taryc1375
tarc1440
matec1450
break1483
labour1496
overwearya1500
wear?1507
to wear out, forth1525
fatigate1535
stress1540
overtire1558
forwaste1563
to tire out1563
overwear1578
spend1582
out-tire1596
outwear1596
outweary1596
overspend1596
to toil out1596
attediate1603
bejade1620
lassate1623
harassa1626
overtask1628
tax1672
hag1674
trash1685
hatter1687
overtax1692
fatigue1693
to knock up1740
tire to death1740
overfatigue1741
fag1774
outdo1776
to do over1789
to use up1790
jade1798
overdo1817
frazzlea1825
worry1828
to sew up1837
to wear to death1840
to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847
gruel1850
to stump up1853
exhaust1860
finish1864
peter1869
knacker1886
grind1887
tew1893
crease1925
poop1931
raddle1951
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (reflexive)]
strain1377
overwork1530
overtire1558
toil1560
spend1594
overtask1628
waste1630
unbowel1647
to run off one's legs (also feet)1666
overexert1817
muck1819
tew1825
overdo1858
to burn out, forth1955
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [verb (transitive)] > put the limbs or faculties to abnormal exertion > excessively
overtravaila1382
overstrain1578
exceed1596
overtask1628
excel1667
overtax1692
1628 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Fast 16 Many a good Husband ouer-taskes himselfe, and vndertakes more, then his eye can ouer-looke.
1637 J. Milton Comus 11 To find out that..Would overtask the best land-pilots art.
1686 T. Ken Direct. Prayer 5 If you should be severe, or should over-task them, Religion should seem to them rather a burden than a Blessing.
1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa II. x. 31 Alas, I fear to overtask thy Friendship.
1798 W. Wordsworth Simon Lee in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 104 So vain was his endeavour That at the root of the old tree He might have worked for ever. ‘You're overtasked, good Simon Lee’.
1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner I. v. 90 Nor did he intend to pursue his journey in such a way as to overtask her strength, or injure her health.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 129 Work which had overtasked the greatest kings.
1946 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 20 142 There is a fallacy in the idea that the brain can be overcrammed, overtasked, and worn out by knowledge.
1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 12 May c4 We have overtasked and underfunded our intelligence agencies for too long.
Derivatives
ˌoverˈtasked adj.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > full of or subject to extreme or excessive > exerted by
straineda1542
overracked1589
overstrained1599
exerted1675
overtasked1828
screwed-up1829
1828 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 317 Woman is degraded too frequently to the level of domestic drudge, or made the overtasked bondwoman of her selfish lord.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxvii. 289 Relief for overtasked eyes and brain from study and sightseeing.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 12 Apr. 22/2 The goal of high levels of academic achievement for everybody..is a new one that cannot be met by overtasked school systems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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