overwork

Other forms of overwork

plural

overworks·

past tense

overworked·

present participle

overworking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overwork

What does overwork mean?

overwork means "use too much". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overwork?

overwork has 3 syllables: o-ver-work. The stress falls on "work". In IPA it is /ˌoʊvɚˈwɝk/.

What is another word for overwork?

Close synonyms include exploit, overworking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overwork a common word?

overwork is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overwork?

15 words rhyme with overwork. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.