overtoil
English
    
    
Verb
    
overtoil (third-person singular simple present overtoils, present participle overtoiling, simple past and past participle overtoiled)
- (transitive) To weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.
-  1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:- 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; […]
 
 
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References
    
- overtoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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