overworking
- noun
- /ˌoʊvərˈwɜrkɪŋ/
- Your sympathetic nervous system, which is your fight, fight, flee, freeze, overworking, entrepreneurial nervous system impairs your prefrontal cortex.
Examples
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"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.
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Basically all those years of just not sleeping, just working, overworking, travelling.
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It's finding that balance between overworking and codependently working.
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As you said, it was overworking, It's fast-paced.
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As you said, it was overworking, It's fast-paced.
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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.
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Her constant overworking has left her feeling exhausted and burned out.
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Many employees suffer from overworking, which negatively affects their health.
Synonyms
Work done for too long that makes you tired or sick
Doing too much physical or mental work that causes harm
Too much physical and mental effort that causes damage or tiredness
Antonyms
How Excessive
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.