overtoil

English

Etymology

over- +‎ toil

Verb

overtoil (third-person singular simple present overtoils, present participle overtoiling, simple past and past participle overtoiled)

  1. (transitive) To weary excessively; to exhaust.
    • Tennyson
      overtoiled by that day's grief and travel

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overtoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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