overtoil
overtoil verb: to weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.
Verb
overtoil (third-person singular simple present overtoils, present participle overtoiling, simple past and past participle overtoiled)
- To 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
Forms of overtoil
| third-person singular present | overtoils |
|---|---|
| present participle | overtoiling |
| past participle | overtoiled |
| past | overtoiled |
Origin of overtoil
From over- + toil.
Questions about overtoil
- What does overtoil mean?
- Overtoil means to weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.
- What part of speech is overtoil?
- Overtoil is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overtoil?
- The past tense of overtoil is overtoiled.
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