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单词 overtravail
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overtravailv.

Forms: see over- prefix and travail v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, travail v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + travail v. Compare over-travail n.
Obsolete.
transitive. To cause or force to work too hard; to exhaust or oppress with excessive work.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] > esp. through labour
fortravailc1305
overtravaila1382
overdrivea1450
over-labour1530
overwork1530
defatigate?1533
toil1549
forspend1571
out-toil1603
overtoil1607
slave1864
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > set (person) to work > overwork
overtravaila1382
slave1699
sweat1821
haze1840
drudge1847
horse1867
slave-drive1878
rawhide1895
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
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. i. 11 He..putte to hem maysters of werkis þat þey schulden ouertrauailen [a1425 L.V. turmente; L. affligerent] hem with birþens.
c1440 (?a1396) W. Hilton in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 18 He..ouertrauells by ymagynacionns his wittes.
a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 51 He þat his hors ouertraueliþ in þe mornyng, he schal not..good iourny make.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vii. f. 203v Ouertrauelling oure men wyth continuall toyle.
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 125 Except the strength of our nature ouertrauell the danger thereof.
1604 T. Bodley in Lett. to T. James (1926) 116 Yow also complained of want of Exercise, and leasure to take physicke, being ouertrauelled with the Librarie buisnesse.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry 22 Pissing blood..cometh with ouer-trauelling a Horse.
a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) i. i. 5 Alass my Father's dead too gentle Sir, help to retire his spirits over-travell'd with age and sorrow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

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