English

Alternative forms

• overlabored (US)

Verb

overlaboured

1. simple past tense and past participle of overlabour

Adjective

overlaboured ‎(comparative more overlaboured, superlative most overlaboured)

1. Overworked, exhausted.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.107:

     Oh, Hesperus! thou bringest all good things— / Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, / To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, / The welcome stall to the o’erlaboured steer [...].

2. Laboured, over-elaborate.