overworked
- IPA[ˌōvərˈwərkt]
美式
- (of a person) having to work beyond their capacity or strength；used to excess
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. (of a person) having to work beyond their capacity or strength overworked nurses do not have time to adequately prepare patients for discharge tired, overworked, demoralized staff 同義詞
- 2. used to excess the strain of overworked muscles
- ▪ (of a word, phrase, or idea) used so often that it has lost its effect it's an overworked analogy for once the overworked phrase “the end of an era” is apposite 同義詞
