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    1. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to overwork themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years


    2. Till this stipulation was made, mutual emulation, and the desire of greater gain, frequently prompted them to overwork themselves, and to hurt their health by excessive labour


    3. Apparently because of overwork they are not as silent as you think


    4. Concentrated populations, disease, and overwork reduced California Indians from as high as one million to under 300,000 in less than 80 years


    5. In California, most Native deaths under Spain were by disease and overwork in the missions, not killing every Indian in sight as Anglo-Americans did


    6. The decimation, however great, came about through disease, murder, suicide, and overwork through slaving


    7. Moreover, we love these causes – the addictions, the gossip, the overwork, the feeding of our critical mind


    8. “You would not want to overwork yourself or get the baby sick


    9. disease, accident and self-indulgence, worry and overwork


    10. Overwork could be a problem for them

    11. We visited hundreds of dwellings and small villages as well as the main centres of Tulancingo, Santaros, Vincoso and everywhere there were signs of a people who were slowly being ground down by taxes and overwork, after three weeks we finally neared Xocanti, the followers now numbered in the thousands, but Wedon the high priest and all the villagers, man, woman and child, came out to escort us into the village, carrying food and drink for as many as wanted it, I began to worry that this selflessness would seriously leave Xocanti short of food but Wedon assured me that was not the case, it was a joyous reunion for me and Coatl, when Jodas and his troop of warriors marched up and as one knelt in front of us, I told them to rise and we all hugged and punched and rolled about in the dirt, even Coatl joined in the fun, not a very dignified entrance for the Most High chief of all the Tolteca, but knowing these people like we did no-one took exception to their chief wrestling on the ground and having a bit of fun, mother hearing about it later congratulated me and called it a stroke of political statesmanship unequalled ever, it was only later that I realised how right she was, that one bit of fooling around had endeared me to all who witnessed it, it had achieved more maybe than all the pomp and ceremony of our long march, I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was impromptu, trust mother to immediately sort the maize from the chaff


    12. � Starvation diets, overwork, beatings, tortures and executions will kill close to 100,000 of the inmates who will go through Ravensbruck during this war


    13. Oh, it's a fact a lot of prisoners die due to overwork and small rations, and there are those who die from accidents and knife fights, but it doesn't have to be that way


    14. Dave also knew that his overwork and lack of sensitivity to her needs had not allowed them to bond properly, but she was much too good a person to bring that up much


    15. There were beatings and overwork


    16. Your shoulders were injured because your pride caused you to overwork


    17. The stress of digitized tech-ciety produces a culture of exhaustion from overwork, under-rest, hyper-stimulation, and food fatigue which produces a maladapted ciiborg, which wants to pretend it is a machine with upgradeable capacity and applications, while ignoring its biology of organic health interdependence


    18. transcend and a physical dependence that needs to be controlled? If the GlobalMind loves its Eartheart body, would this not be the end of brute labor, production and consumption, would it not mean the immediate cessation of all acts of waste? If it sees its body as we see ours, what will this mean as we witness the sour decay of our own through poisoning, overwork, and neglect? If it sees us as the Body Betrayal, then it will treat our deviations from its perceptions of perfect health as diseases to be cured or mental illnesses to be reconditioned


    19. Since true egalitarianism has not emerged with the rise of smart labor, which has eliminated most human jobs, class divisions have escalated and, to avoid mass militancy, the death of the lower classes has become necessary through overwork, addiction, malnutrition, famine, lack of health care, pandemics, drought, herd thinning displaced populations wandering aimless from their GovCorp land grabbed communities, unwilling collateral participation in wars of population reduction, and anything that can decrease the lower class' ever increasing numbers due to the decrease of actual jobs


    20. And later on to the Bishop he remarked, in his hearty desire to have everything trim and in its proper place, the young in the fresh air, older persons at desks in studies, white faces reserved for invalids, roses blooming in the cheeks of girls, that he mustn't overwork that little daughter of his

    21. 'She isn't simple enough,' Wemyss would say to Lucy if ever she said anything about her aunt's increasing appearance of strain and overwork


    22. Yet you submit tamely to have your life shortened by slow starvation, overwork, lack of proper boots and clothing, and though having


    23. Is it proper that peasants should overwork themselves without getting enough to eat, while we are living in such wasteful luxury?"


    24. Among these downtrodden, duped, and defrauded men, who are becoming demoralised by overwork, and being gradually done to death by underfeeding, there are men living who consider themselves Christians; and others so enlightened that they feel no further need for Christianity or for any religion, so superior do they appear in their own esteem


    25. When the young Tsar again lost consciousness, he awoke to find himself in the middle of a village, where he saw hungry, half-frozen children and the wife of the man who had assaulted the constable broken down from overwork


    26. It is doubtful whether any revolution could be more disastrous than the present social order, or rather disorder, with its perpetual victims of overwork, misery, drunkenness, dissipation, with all the horrors of impending war that in one year will sacrifice more lives than all the revolutions of the present century


    27. This will be so, also, in July, when the peasants, not having had their sleep out, will mow the oats at night in order that it may not be lost, and the women will get up before dawn in order to finish their threshing in time; when this old woman, who had been exhausted during the harvest, and the women with child, and the little children will again all overwork themselves, and when there is a great want of hands, horses, carts, in order to house this corn upon which all men feed, of which millions of bushels are necessary in Russia in order that men should not die: during even such a time, the idle lives of ladies and gentlemen will go on


    28. However we may try to justify to ourselves our treason against mankind, all our justification falls to pieces before evidence: around us, people are dying from overwork and want; and we destroy the food, clothes, and labour of men merely to amuse ourselves


    1. overworked and stressed out


    2. overworked to the point that they’re no longer reacting to your


    3. My French is terrible and very overworked,” she said as


    4. and had overworked his kindness


    5. I assured her that I would, but really figured that with all the deaths, he was overworked at the Obituary desk


    6. After a while, we had to set specific hours during which people could come to her for treatment, just to prevent her from getting overworked


    7. First, you had to watch out for the overworked pundit, she'd


    8. Why he was so hard on me, why he overworked me


    9. I was given the title Senior Contract Administrator; whereas, she had sought a “rookie” whom she could boss around, Even though I was overworked, leaving each night no sooner that 6pm because of my legal duties and handling of my own half of the contracts, Maria made the humiliation complete by giving me all of her filing and copying to do


    10. When errors do occur, personnel are held accountable in foul or fair weather, whether the crews have been overworked or understaffed, whatever the seafaring conditions, which, in the case of the Mesquite, were significant (Stonehouse, pp

    11. You are overworked and your behaviour has become obsessive


    12. What would his overworked mind come up with next? As he lay back down he


    13. the most overworked words in my vocabulary


    14. During their four years in power, the Khmer Rouge overworked and starved the population, at the same time executing selected groups who had the potential to undermine the new state (including intellectuals or even those that had stereotypical signs of learning, such as glasses) and killing many others for even minor breaches of rules


    15. He quizzed all his physician buddies and their consensus was that gonadotropin was the best remedy for a genetically sub-standard, overworked 74 year old male sexual organ


    16. The term "million dollar location" is grossly overworked by Nova Scotian


    17. bit overworked? You’ve heard it, read about it, often


    18. The topic was about how overworked and tired Americans have become


    19. People are overstressed and overworked in this country and it is in my opinion, a dilemma that is causing short tempers and violence all over the country


    20. Many of the workers in America today, with the bad economy, are overworked and also may work for a bad manager that can lead to much stress

    21. Liz Bywater, who is President of Bywater Consulting Group, had added some reasoning to why our society has succumbed to being overworked


    22. Editors are routinely overworked and


    23. usually overworked and underpaid


    24. they are underpaid and overworked,” said Rodney


    25. Breeding bitches are almost always overworked, often


    26. The excuse may be that the staff is overworked, but that does not mean that more workers can’t be hired


    27. that was overworked, overburdened, understaffed, and worst of


    28. Up to now, his unit had to do with a motley collection of old, mostly captured enemy trucks that had represented a maintenance nightmare for the inventive but overworked mechanics of the battalion


    29. No matter how these workers were handled, they were undoubtedly overworked, underpaid and suppressed


    30. From reading some of the following actual writings from hospital charts, you should be convinced that most of them are overworked

    31. For those who are overworked, I understand how at an average of 40 hours


    32. Now, the near miraculous arrival of this heavy transport squadron was going to do much to relieve the overworked doctors and nurses of the 1st Marine Division


    33. As a matter of fact, when our master Solomon had tired out the horse, his noble spirit introverted shy and ashamed for he slightly overworked it


    34. � For your information, a concentration camp is essentially a large prison camp where the inmates are slowly starved, overworked and beaten to death as a punishment for sometimes nothing more than being from the wrong ethnic group


    35. Even at night this core felt overworked and overpopulated, the pillars and


    36. The raw dough had been carefully made, making sure the dough was not overworked


    37. These few days, she had overworked herself to breaking point, and


    38. Quite a history these poor, wife-beating, wife-cheating, gambling, drinking, whoring, raping, killing items have! Alibis based on an irresistible impulse plea are merely obvious copouts on individual responsibility, but the guys’ve overworked ‘em ever since Adam helped himself to a bite of Eve’s apple, nonetheless


    39. “They must’ve overworked it,” said Sorren


    40. My last encounter was with a forty-two-year-old trader, so stressed and overworked that he lay down and fell asleep

    41. ‘I’m fine, just overworked at the moment,’ he said dismissively, trying to avoid her questions about why he was feeling stressed


    42. Wife, where the tired, self-neglecting, overworked


    43. Migrant workers are often overworked and underpaid, in


    44. the liver and other organs of detoxification and elimination are overworked


    45. She could be overworked


    46. The medics who did work for us were overworked, underpaid, and did the work of angels


    47. his Mom, overworked and underdanced with four kids and


    48. compensate and become overworked


    49. "Tender Points” on the body may continue to ache regardless of the therapies a patient tries, and muscles may feel constantly overworked


    50. We entered a Greek restaurant called Xenophon, a vast area with simple wooden tables and chairs and white, overworked tablecloths


















    1. Dandelion can gently supplement your animal’s diet without overworking the liver and kidneys with excess vitamins and minerals


    2. Most likely you will be working very hard – perhaps overworking


    3. If there is not a soul to bring out the product because management is overworking the help to death, how can the goods get to the market? If you expect the government to solve any of your problems, you will have a long, long wait


    4. Even though she felt tired, her brain was overworking


    5. you can, without overworking yourself


    6. The difference would be this,—that a certain washerwoman, and a certain cigarette-maker, would exert themselves less, and what I gave formerly for the washing of my shirt, and for the making of my cigarettes, I may give now to that or to another woman; and working-people who are tired by their work, instead of overworking themselves, will be able to rest and to have tea


    7. And this will go on in July also, when the peasants, without obtaining sufficient sleep, reap the oats by night, lest it should fall, and the women rise gloomily to thresh out the straw for the bands to tie the sheaves; when this old woman, already utterly cramped by the labor of mowing, and the woman with child, and the young children, injure themselves overworking and over-drinking; and when neither hands, nor horses, nor carts will suffice to bring to the ricks that grain with which all men are nourished, and millions of poods [165] of which are daily required in Russia to keep people from perishing


    1. A variety of dishes overworks the stomach, induces capricious appetite and


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    Synonyms for "overwork"

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    "overwork" definitions

    the act of working too much or too long


    use too much


    work excessively hard