overtoil

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verb

To weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.

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Meanings

verbovertoil (third-person singular simple present overtoils, present participle overtoiling, simple past and past participle overtoiled)

present singular third person overtoils · participle present overtoiling · participle past overtoiled · past overtoiled

  1. transitiveTo weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.

    Then dozed awhile herself, but overtoil'd / By that day's grief and travel, evermore / Seem'd catching at a rootless thorn, and then / Went slipping down horrible precipices, / And strongly striking out her limbs awoke; […]

    1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 65–66

Origin

From over- + toil.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overtoil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtoil.

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