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overwrought 音标拼音: [ ,ovɚr'ɔt] overwork的过去式 overwork的过去式 overwrought adj 1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; " distraught with grief" [ synonym: { distraught}, { overwrought}] Overwork \ O` ver* work"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Overworked} or { Overwrought}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Overworking}.] 1. To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. [ 1913 Webster] My days with toil are overwrought. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To decorate all over. [ 1913 Webster]
Overwrought \ O` ver* wrought\, p. p. & a. from { Overwork}. 1. Wrought upon excessively; overworked. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people. [ PJC] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " overwrought": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big- sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, distracted, edgy, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fidgety, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frantic, frenetic, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, high- wrought, highfalutin, hyperbolic, in a dither, in a tizzy, in a twitter, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, jittery, jumpy, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, nervous, on edge, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overcome, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overelegant, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overexcited, overgreat, overinvolved, overlabored, overlarge, overmastered, overpowered, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwhelmed, overworked, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty- pretty, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stretched, strung out, superlative, tall, tense, tortuous, touchy, touted, upset, uptight, wound up
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