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overlabour

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈleɪbə(ɹ)/

overlabour noun: excessive labour.

Noun

overlabour (uncountable)

  1. Excessive labour.
    • a disease which he had brought upon himself, by his over-labour at a Siege1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg

Verb

overlabour (third-person singular simple present overlabours, present participle overlabouring, simple past and past participle overlaboured)

  1. (transitive) To cause to labour excessively; to overwork.
    • overlabor the employees
    • 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. (transitive) To labour upon excessively; to refine unduly.
    • overlabor ornaments
  3. To belabour or emphasise excessively.
    • overlabor the point
    • I don't want to overlabour what is obvious here.

overlabour meaning in Tamil

overlabour in Tamil

மட்டுமீறி நுணுக்க விரிவுபடுத்து

Forms of overlabour

Noun
alternative formoverlabor
Verb
third-person singular presentoverlabours
present participleoverlabouring
past participleoverlaboured
pastoverlaboured

Origin of overlabour

From over- + labour (noun).

From Middle English over-labouren, equivalent to over- + labour (verb).

Questions about overlabour

What does overlabour mean?
Overlabour means excessive labour.
What is overlabour in Tamil?
Overlabour in Tamil is மட்டுமீறி நுணுக்க விரிவுபடுத்து. See Overlabour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overlabour?
Overlabour can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce overlabour?
Overlabour is pronounced /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈleɪbə(ɹ)/.

Words near overlabour in the dictionary

  1. overknowing
  2. overlabor
  3. overlabored
  4. overlaboring
  5. overlabors
  6. overlabour
  7. overlaboured
  8. overlabouring
  9. overlabours
  10. overlace
  11. overlaced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overlabour (page history and authors); overlabour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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