Synonyms for Overwork:

• n.

  •
  • misuse,
  • overburdening,
  • overdoing it,
  • Overloading,
  • exploitation,
  • overtime,
  • fritter away,
  • wear out,
  • going too far,
  • exhaustion.
  •
  • challenge,
  • exertion,
  • dedication,
  • pursuit,
  • effort,
  • heavy lifting,
  • undertaking,
  • care.
  •
  • keep someone busy,
  • occupy,
  • stretch,
  • overload.
  •
  • put your back into something,
  • apply yourself,
  • exert yourself.
  •act (noun)
  • overwork,
  • overworking.
  •exploit (noun)
  • exploit.

• v.

  •abuse (verb)
  • mis employs,
  • mis-handled,
  • mis handles,
  • over-works,
  • mis using,
  • mis employ,
  • over taxes,
  • over worked,
  • misemploys,
  • mis-employing,
  • mis handling,
  • mis handle,
  • mis-handle,
  • over works,
  • mis employed,
  • over burden,
  • mis handled,
  • mis-handling,
  • over burdens,
  • over taxing,
  • over work,
  • mis employing,
  • over-tax,
  • over-burdens,
  • over-work,
  • mis-employ,
  • over-burdening,
  • over taxed,
  • over-working,
  • over burdened,
  • misemploying,
  • mis-employs,
  • over-taxes,
  • over-worked,
  • over burdening,
  • mis used,
  • mis-handles,
  • over-taxing,
  • over-burdened,
  • over working,
  • over tax,
  • mis-employed,
  • misemployed,
  • over-taxed,
  • mis-used,
  • mis-using.
  •belabor (verb)
  • be-labored,
  • be labors,
  • be laboring,
  • re hashing,
  • re hash,
  • re hashes,
  • be-labor,
  • re hashed,
  • re-peats,
  • re peat,
  • re-hashes,
  • be labored,
  • re peats,
  • goes on about,
  • hammered home,
  • re-hashing,
  • going on about,
  • re-hash,
  • be-labors,
  • be labor,
  • went on about,
  • hammers home,
  • beat dead horse,
  • re-peat,
  • be-laboring,
  • re-hashed,
  • hammering home.
  •burn the midnight oil (verb)
  • wrought like dog,
  • sweat slave,
  • does double duty,
  • wrought day night,
  • doing double duty,
  • works like a dog,
  • worked day and night,
  • worked overtime,
  • worked like a dog,
  • elucubrated,
  • doest double duty,
  • did double duty,
  • elucubrating,
  • working day night,
  • works like dog,
  • sweats and slave,
  • didst double duty,
  • sweated slave,
  • toils away,
  • worked day night,
  • worked late,
  • wrought like a dog,
  • working late,
  • wrought overtime,
  • works late,
  • dost double duty,
  • working like a dog,
  • wrought late,
  • wrought day and night,
  • sweats slave,
  • work like dog,
  • elucubrates,
  • works day and night,
  • works overtime,
  • toiled away,
  • doeth double duty,
  • sweated and slave,
  • works day night,
  • working like dog,
  • working day and night,
  • work day night,
  • doth double duty,
  • worked like dog,
  • working overtime,
  • sweating and slave,
  • sweating slave.
  •drive (verb)
  • acts upon,
  • steamrolled,
  • in-spiring,
  • spirited up,
  • in duces,
  • leans on,
  • puts up to,
  • leant on,
  • spiriting up,
  • works on,
  • in-spire,
  • in spire,
  • wrought on,
  • spirits up,
  • acts up on,
  • in-spired,
  • steamrolls,
  • in-duces,
  • leaned on,
  • in-duce,
  • acted up on,
  • putting up to,
  • in duce,
  • acting up on,
  • puts to,
  • acting upon,
  • in spired,
  • putting to,
  • in spires,
  • in-spires,
  • in spiring,
  • act up on,
  • steamrolling.
  •exhaust (verb)
  • over exerts,
  • over extends,
  • overextends,
  • over extending,
  • over fatigue,
  • ran ragged,
  • over-extend,
  • over-fatigues,
  • overexerted,
  • running ragged,
  • over tires,
  • overtiring,
  • over-exerted,
  • overexerts,
  • over-fatigued,
  • over fatigues,
  • over fatiguing,
  • overfatiguing,
  • over-tiring,
  • over-exerts,
  • over-extends,
  • over-exerting,
  • over-tired,
  • overfatigues,
  • over fatigued,
  • over-fatiguing,
  • over exerting,
  • over-extending,
  • conking out,
  • over exerted,
  • over extend,
  • over tire,
  • over-extended,
  • over-tires,
  • over extended,
  • overextending,
  • over tiring,
  • uses up,
  • over-tire,
  • over tired,
  • over exert,
  • conks out,
  • overtires,
  • runs ragged.
  •ill-treat (verb)
  • mis treated,
  • mis-treat,
  • mis treating,
  • mis-treats,
  • mis treats,
  • mis-treated,
  • ill treat,
  • mis treat.
  •ill-use (verb)
  • ill use,
  • illused.
  •overplay (verb)
  • gotten carried away,
  • over emphasize,
  • over draw,
  • Overdrew,
  • laid thick,
  • over acting,
  • over stressed,
  • over stressing,
  • blows out proportion,
  • over-playing,
  • got carried away,
  • lays it on thick,
  • over-acted,
  • over-acting,
  • over-stress,
  • lays it thick,
  • over-drew,
  • pointed up,
  • overdraws,
  • gets carried away,
  • over plays,
  • lay thick,
  • over-acts,
  • laboring at,
  • over-act,
  • overstresses,
  • blew out proportion,
  • blows out of proportion,
  • blew out of proportion,
  • over-emphasizing,
  • over-plays,
  • blowing out of proportion,
  • over-draws,
  • laid it thick,
  • over acts,
  • laying thick,
  • over draws,
  • over-drawing,
  • getting carried away,
  • blowing out proportion,
  • over play,
  • lays on thick,
  • laying on thick,
  • lay it thick,
  • blow out proportion,
  • labored at,
  • over played,
  • lays thick,
  • over drew,
  • over drawing,
  • over-emphasized,
  • over-drawn,
  • over stresses,
  • over-draw,
  • over-stressed,
  • over-stresses,
  • over playing,
  • over-played,
  • over emphasized,
  • over emphasizing,
  • over act,
  • over-play,
  • gat carried away,
  • over-emphasizes,
  • labors at,
  • over drawn,
  • points up,
  • over-stressing,
  • over stress,
  • laying it thick,
  • over acted,
  • over emphasizes,
  • laid it on thick.
  •strain (verb)
  • dis-tended,
  • dis torts,
  • dis tending,
  • pushed limit,
  • dis-torts,
  • dis-tends,
  • pushing limit,
  • drawing tight,
  • drew tight,
  • pushed to limit,
  • ex tending,
  • pushes the limit,
  • pushes to limit,
  • ex-tends,
  • dis-tort,
  • pushes to the limit,
  • dis tends,
  • ex-tend,
  • pushed to the limit,
  • dis-tend,
  • push limit,
  • push the limit,
  • draws tight,
  • pushing the limit,
  • ex-tended,
  • pushing to the limit,
  • dis-tending,
  • ex tend,
  • push to limit,
  • dis tort,
  • pushed the limit,
  • pushes limit,
  • ex tended,
  • dis tend,
  • ex tends,
  • dis tended,
  • pushing to limit,
  • ex-tending.
  •tax (verb)
  • making demands on,
  • puts pressure on,
  • weighs heavily on,
  • presses hard on,
  • putting pressure on,
  • pressing hard on,
  • weighing heavily on,
  • weighed heavily on,
  • makes demands on,
  • pressed hard on,
  • made demands on.
  •tire (verb)
  • ex asperate,
  • growing weary,
  • dis-heartened,
  • dis-tress,
  • de pressed,
  • dis heartened,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis pleasing,
  • went stale,
  • dis tress,
  • over straining,
  • dis-gusted,
  • ex-asperating,
  • de-press,
  • dis tressed,
  • over-strains,
  • dis gusting,
  • puts sleep,
  • ex asperates,
  • dis gust,
  • de pressing,
  • dis-pleases,
  • dis-hearten,
  • put sleep,
  • ex-asperate,
  • dis heartens,
  • dis-tressed,
  • de presses,
  • ex-asperated,
  • dis-please,
  • ennuiing,
  • dis-gusting,
  • putting sleep,
  • dis pleases,
  • dis hearten,
  • goes stale,
  • dis-gusts,
  • dis-tresses,
  • grows weary,
  • dis-gust,
  • dis heartening,
  • over-straining,
  • over strains,
  • over-strain,
  • over strained,
  • ex asperating,
  • going stale,
  • dis please,
  • de-pressing,
  • dis-heartening,
  • over strain,
  • dis-pleased,
  • dis gusted,
  • dis-heartens,
  • dis pleased,
  • de press,
  • de-presses,
  • de-pressed,
  • dis gusts,
  • over-strained,
  • ex-asperates,
  • dis tresses.
  •wear (verb)
  • becoming worn,
  • being worthless,
  • de cline,
  • de crease,
  • wert worthless,
  • becomes worn,
  • de clines,
  • became worn,
  • going to seed,
  • de-clines,
  • washes away,
  • goes seed,
  • de-cay,
  • de cay,
  • wast worthless,
  • scrapes off,
  • is worthless,
  • de creased,
  • scraping off,
  • was worthless,
  • were worthless,
  • going seed,
  • art worthless,
  • becoming threadbare,
  • de-creases,
  • de cays,
  • de-cline,
  • wears thin,
  • de-crease,
  • de-cays,
  • de-creasing,
  • are worthless,
  • de creasing,
  • went seed,
  • de creases,
  • scraped off,
  • becomes threadbare,
  • went to seed,
  • go seed,
  • am worthless,
  • de-creased.
  •weary (verb)
  • hadst had enough,
  • having had enough,
  • tried the patience of,
  • hath had enough,
  • leave cold,
  • trying patience of,
  • lost interest,
  • takes it out of,
  • causing ennui,
  • trying the patience of,
  • leaving one cold,
  • try patience of,
  • left one cold,
  • tried patience of,
  • take out of,
  • leaved one cold,
  • leaves cold,
  • tries the patience of,
  • took out of,
  • losing interest,
  • making discontented,
  • loses interest,
  • taking out of,
  • tries patience of,
  • leaved cold,
  • takes out of,
  • haddest had enough,
  • makes discontented,
  • grew tired,
  • had had enough,
  • has had enough,
  • leaves one cold,
  • made discontented,
  • took it out of,
  • hast had enough,
  • causes ennui,
  • left cold,
  • tuckers out,
  • taking it out of,
  • leaving cold,
  • grows tired,
  • growing tired,
  • caused ennui,
  • tuckering out.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • grind away,
  • buckle down,
  • chuck away,
  • throw away,
  • dissipate,
  • misspend,
  • hog,
  • overstretch,
  • overburden,
  • squander,
  • work at,
  • piddle away,
  • knuckle down.
  •
  • overuse,
  • blow,
  • overdo,
  • crusade.
  •
  • swamp,
  • besiege,
  • lose.
  •
  • sweat,
  • barrage,
  • slog,
  • forge.
  •
  • dig in.
  •
  • graft,
  • knock out.
  •
  • push.
  •belabor
  • going about,
  • go on about,
  • hammer home.
  •dwell on
  • belabor.
  •overdo
  • overvalues,
  • overuses,
  • drive oneself,
  • went too far,
  • lay it on,
  • talk big,
  • wear oneself out,
  • hyped,
  • overestimated,
  • lays on,
  • Overvaluing,
  • laying on,
  • overvalue,
  • be intemperate,
  • over-estimate,
  • Overrated,
  • overestimating,
  • Overvalued,
  • strain oneself,
  • piling on,
  • lay on,
  • overusing,
  • pile on,
  • laid on,
  • overestimate,
  • bite off too much,
  • overestimates,
  • make federal case,
  • not know when to stop,
  • over-rate,
  • run into the ground,
  • do to death.
  •overplay
  • ham up,
  • overdraw,
  • laid on thick,
  • overemphasized,
  • Overdrawn,
  • overemphasizes,
  • lay it on thick,
  • laying it on thick,
  • pointing up,
  • blow out of proportion,
  • maximized,
  • maximizing,
  • overemphasizing,
  • overstressed,
  • point up,
  • maximize,
  • lay on thick,
  • Overdrawing,
  • overstressing,
  • labor at,
  • get carried away,
  • maximizes,
  • over-emphasize,
  • overacts,
  • overacting.
  •weary
  • wearied,
  • drowsing,
  • leave one cold,
  • cause ennui,
  • have had enough,
  • grow tired,
  • try the patience of,
  • tucker out,
  • drowse,
  • tuckered out,
  • make discontented,
  • Drowsed,
  • lose interest,
  • drowses,
  • take it out of.
  •Other relevant words:
  • drudge,
  • pour it on,
  • overstudy,
  • distress,
  • overact,
  • go to extremes,
  • empty,
  • overexertion,
  • know no bounds,
  • freight,
  • store,
  • deplete,
  • work hard,
  • load,
  • accumulation,
  • Overexcite,
  • plethora,
  • bring,
  • Overcarry,
  • hurt,
  • hit the ball,
  • overemphasize,
  • pack,
  • draw from,
  • tap,
  • busy,
  • apply,
  • heap,
  • stock,
  • impair,
  • fatigue,
  • pull,
  • overkill,
  • opulence,
  • gathering,
  • abundance,
  • mass,
  • lucubrate,
  • work,
  • encumber,
  • slave,
  • stack,
  • scratch,
  • congestion,
  • keep busy,
  • prodigality,
  • overdrive,
  • overstress,
  • concourse,
  • overindulge,
  • hustle,
  • weigh down,
  • harm,
  • injure,
  • exaggerate,
  • Overdoing,
  • Overtask,
  • wrench,
  • carry too far,
  • task,
  • affluence,
  • charge,
  • utilize,
  • overspend,
  • cargo,
  • overreaction,
  • exceed,
  • go too far,
  • hackney,
  • Overdevelop,
  • overelaborate,
  • burn out,
  • supererogation,
  • drain,
  • overreact,
  • force,
  • profusion,
  • employ,
  • twist,
  • tear,
  • Overlabor,
  • weight,
  • overemphasis,
  • overreaching,
  • oppress,
  • bear down,
  • beg,
  • solicit,
  • surfeit,
  • collection,
  • pile,
  • go overboard,
  • damage,
  • surpass,
  • plod.

Paraphrases for Overwork:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    overload.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    overuse.

Antonyms for Overwork:

• v.

  • overdo
    activate, energize.
  • work too hard
    be idle, refresh, invigorate, laze, idle.

Hypernym for Overwork:

• v.

  • social
    overdrive.

Hyponym for Overwork:

• n.

  • act
    toil, labor, labour.

• v.

  • creation
    work on, process, work.
  • social
    put to work, work.