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单词 over-laboured
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over-labouredover-laboredadj.n.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈleɪbəd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈleɪbərd/
Forms: see over- prefix and laboured adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over-labour v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < over-labour v. + -ed suffix1.
Overworked; (also) excessively elaborate or laboured. Also as n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour
forswunka1250
forwroughtc1400
forlaboured1483
broken1490
forespent1563
fortoiled1567
toiled1574
overtoiled?1577
over-laboured1579
back-broken1603
moiled1618
swinked1637
overwrought1648
overtaxed1650
toil-worn1752
used up1823
overworked1830
beat1832
dead-beaten1854
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally
wateryc1230
polite?a1500
meagre1539
over-laboured1579
bald1589
spiritless1592
light1597
meretricious1633
standing1661
effectual1662
airy1664
severe1665
correct1676
enervatea1704
free1728
classic1743
academic1752
academical1752
chaste1753
nerveless1763
epic1769
crude1786
effective1790
creative1791
soulless1794
mannered1796
manneristical1830
manneristic1837
subjective1840
inartisticala1849
abstract1857
inartistic1859
literary1900
period1905
atmospheric1908
dateless1908
atmosphered1920
non-naturalistic1925
self-indulgent1926
free-styled1933
soft-centred1935
freestyle1938
pseudish1938
decadent1942
post-human1944
kitschy1946
faux-naïf1958
spare1965
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. (Gloss.) f. 15v Forswonck and forswatt, ouerlaboured and sunburne.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. xxxv. 123 The wearied and ouerlaboured were seconded by fresh supplies.
1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 5 Instantly his ouer-laboured bodie grew weake and ablelesse to deliuer him a liuing soule.
a1700 J. Dryden 2nd Epode of Horace in Wks. (1885) XII. 371 She..will oversee His children and his family, And order all things till he come, Sweaty and overlaboured, home.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lxxiv. 333 My Midnight Lamp, and my o're-labour'd Head.
1795 T. Morton Zorinski II. i. 26 Well toiled to day;—I often hope, that when these over-laboured limbs do press their straw, sweet sleep will give a short oblivion to my cares.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xiv. 205 The poor working-man wrings a scant livelihood out of an over-laboured week.
1878 Appleton's Jrnl. May 479/2 It promises to be a far finer picture than is his overstrained and overlabored ‘1807’.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 2 And hither am I—again, Kindling with mockery thy o'erlaboured brain.
1986 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 45 1028 The Freeds make an overlabored attempt to determine that biological factors, such as premenstrual tension, were a major part of the explanation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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