simple past and past participle of overwork
Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought.
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Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.