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overworking

overworking

3.4
Working too much for a long time that makes you very tired
  • noun
  • /ˌoʊvərˈwɜrkɪŋ/
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  • Your sympathetic nervous system, which is your fight, fight, flee, freeze, overworking, entrepreneurial nervous system impairs your prefrontal cortex.

Examples

  • "Moreover, persistent and long-continued overworking of the brain produces deterioration of the blood and all its train of attendant physical evils" (47-48).

    Academic text (2014)
  • Your sympathetic nervous system, which is your fight, fight, flee, freeze, overworking, entrepreneurial nervous system impairs your prefrontal cortex.

  • Basically all those years of just not sleeping, just working, overworking, travelling.

  • It's finding that balance between overworking and codependently working.

  • As you said, it was overworking, It's fast-paced.

  • As you said, it was overworking, It's fast-paced.

  • Some manifestations of this illness (not all inclusive) are overeating/obesity, excessive drinking, overworking, addiction to "drama," hopelessness, and fits of anger.

    Blog text (18)
  • But to us, our anger, defensiveness, overeating, dieting, obsessing, worrying, and overworking, to name a few, are all justified and justifiable behaviors, "reasonable" under the circumstances.

    Blog text (12)
  • Her constant overworking has left her feeling exhausted and burned out.

  • Many employees suffer from overworking, which negatively affects their health.

Synonyms

overwork
vsoverworking
5 4.6

Work done for too long that makes you tired or sick

describes the act itself without stressing harm
overexertion
vsoverworking
1 6.5

Doing too much physical or mental work that causes harm

is about working too long rather than a single intense effort
overstrain
vsoverworking
6.7

Too much physical and mental effort that causes damage or tiredness

focuses on long hours of work rather than stress or damage

Antonyms

698 2.5

A situation where different things are in the right amount and are stable

47 3.5

Keeping actions or feelings within reasonable limits

How Excessive

burnout
19 4.1
overworking
3.4
overtime
20 2.7

Surface Forms

overworking singular
overworkings plural

Morphology

overworking = overwork (transparent) = over + work + ing

The word is a straightforward derivation from 'overwork' to 'overworking', indicating the act of working excessively.

Etymology

The word overworking is made from over- meaning 'too much' and work meaning 'a job' or 'effort', like in overeat or overtime. So, overworking means doing your job 'too much' or for too long, which explains why it leads to tiredness and burnout.