overwork's Usage Examples:

It was also attacked on the ground that it led to " overwork."

He died on the 12th of December 1894, worn out with overwork.

Atrophy can be caused by overwork.

The effect of overwork upon an organ or tissue varies in accordance with (a) the particular organ or tissue concerned, (b) the amount of nourishment conveyed to it, and (c) the power of assimilation possessed by its cells.

After a brief term of active professorial life he died from the effects of overwork in 1712.

Atrophy may also follow from overwork.

Depressed by his failure, deeply wounded by the king's favour for Louvois, and worn out by overwork, Colbert's strength gave way at a comparatively early age.

Retiring, with his health impaired by overwork, to his home in Newark, he died there on the 20th of May, less than three months after relinquishing the cares of office.

Overwork and stress take a toll on general health.

Our author was still further to resemble the latter writer in a great misfortune; from overwork he lost his sight in 1857.

Synonyms:

work, process, work on,

Antonyms:

irreversible process, decrease, malfunction, fail,