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Webster 1913 Edition


Overtoil

Oˊver-toil′

,
Verb.
T.
To overwork.

Oˊver-toil′

,
Verb.
T.
To weary excessively; to exhaust.
Then dozed a while herself, but
overtoiled

By that day’s grief and travel.
Tennyson.

Definition 2024


overtoil

overtoil

English

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