overlabour

alternative overlabor

1. uncountableExcessive labour.

   a disease which he had brought upon himself, by his over-labour at a Siege

   1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg

present singular third person overlabours · participle present overlabouring · participle past overlaboured · past overlaboured · alternative overlabor

1. transitiveTo cause to labour excessively; to overwork.

   overlabor the employees

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   But over labour'd with ſo long a Courſe, Tis time to ſet at eaſe the ſmoaking Horſe.

   1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 95

2. transitiveTo labour upon excessively; to refine unduly.

   overlabor ornaments

3. To belabour or emphasise excessively.

   overlabor the point

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   I don't want to overlabour what is obvious here.