单词	overworked
释义	overworkedo‧ver‧worked /ˌəʊvəˈwɜːkt◂ $ ˌoʊvərˈwɜːrkt◂/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES overworked teachers I'd been six months without any holiday, and I was tired and overworked. Teachers often complain that they are overworked and underpaid. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But overworked officers at Dover had managed to inspect only 2,000 of the 2 million lorries which passed through Dover last year. He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest. It can be a different matter where staff are overworked and underpaid and still expected to smile constantly. Our empty shipyards can not refurbish our cruise liners to the same time-scale as overworked but competitive foreign yards. The accident unit was manned by overworked junior medical staff. The cuckoo's cavernous red gape may be irresistible to the overworked foster parents. They are cheerful, competent, overworked and understaffed. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto work too hard► overworked someone who is overworked has too much work to do: · Teachers often complain that they are overworked and underpaid.· I'd been six months without any holiday, and I was tired and overworked. ► overdo it informal to work so hard that you become ill: · The doctor told me to relax and not overdo it.· The President's advisers are worried that he might have been overdoing it lately. ► drive/push yourself too hard to force yourself to work too hard, especially because you want very much to be successful: · You should slow down. You're pushing yourself too hard.· It's no wonder that she had a nervous breakdown -- she's been driving herself too hard for months. ► work/drive yourself into the ground informal to force yourself to work very hard, so that you become extremely tired or ill: · It's good to work hard. But don't drive yourself into the ground.· By the time the great day arrived, I'd worked myself into the ground making sure everything would be just right. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► overworked and underpaid  Teachers are overworked and underpaid. Word family WORD FAMILYnounworkworkaholicworkerworkingworkingsadjectiveworkable ≠ unworkableoverworkedworkingverbworkrework 1made to work too hard:  an overworked doctor They’re overworked and understaffed.2a word or phrase that is overworked is used too much and has become less effective:  overworked metaphors
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