overtoil en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + toil.
Meanings
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(transitive) To weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.
Then dozed awhile herself, but overtoil'd / By that day's grief and travel, evermore / Seem'd catching at a rootless thorn, and then / Went slipping down horrible precipices, / And strongly striking out her limbs awoke; […]
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overtoiled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overtoiled | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overtoils | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overtoiling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |