单词 | over-laboured |
释义 | over-labouredover-laboredadj.n. Overworked; (also) excessively elaborate or laboured. Also as n. ΘΚΠ 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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