What's the difference between overword and overwork?

Overword


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

Example Sentences:

Overwork


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
  • (v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
  • (v. t.) To decorate all over.
  • (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
  • (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
  • (2) The few nurses who remain are exhausted, overworked and demoralised.
  • (3) The Spaniard’s challenge had been wild and right in front of the overworked official, Craig Pawson.
  • (4) GPs are overworked and intensely frustrated that they do not have enough time to spend with their patients, especially the increasing numbers of older people with multiple and complex problems who need specialised care.” Most of the GPs who said they would retire were over the age of 50.
  • (5) Japanese Nurses are overworked and underpaid; many of them leave the profession at about age 25 and get married.
  • (6) The global economic crisis means there are millions out of work or underemployed while increasing numbers are overworked and struggling to balance work and family life.
  • (7) The need to protect physicians-in-training from overwork raises issues not only of pragmatism, but also of morality and professionalism.
  • (8) Overwork, ie, working beyond one's endurance and recuperative capacities, may be a hazard in certain personality types engaged in open-ended occupations.
  • (9) They also cited concerns about the state executing inmates before appeals were complete and argued that Taylor’s original trial attorney was so overworked that she encouraged him to plead guilty.
  • (10) Psychosocial factors (overwork, stress, worry) were the most frequently cited causes of MI, with smoking and being overweight or overeating the most frequently cited physical causes.
  • (11) These aging-like changes seem to occur earlier in chronically stressed, overenlarged, and overworked motor units.
  • (12) With respect to work, four themes emerged: medical routine, patient centered care, overwork and isolation.
  • (13) The public backs the doctors, with 62% of the population believing they are overworked and giving that as the biggest cause of medical compensation cases .
  • (14) Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the NCT, the childbirth and parenting charity, said: "Midwives are being overworked, maternity units are understaffed and as a result parents are suffering."
  • (15) Meanwhile, Guardian Money has also received an unsigned letter from a group of staff at John Lewis’s London head office that makes allegations about overworked and unmotivated employees.
  • (16) Its impedance keeps the perilymph motion within a physiological acoustic amplitude quantum level unless the movements are so excessive as in barotrauma and acoustic trauma which would have overworked even the annular ligament of a normal footplate.
  • (17) Responses indicated that rural GPs were significantly more overworked, had less opportunity for continuing education, had poorer medical facilities, and had less adequate schools for their children than urban GPs.
  • (18) Hands up, though, who wants to be tended to by an overworked, stressed junior doctor with low morale?
  • (19) A “perfect storm” is brewing in General Practice as recruitment continues to fall and overworked seniors take early retirement.
  • (20) Many GPs are so inundated with demands for appointments that they can no longer guarantee to treat patients safely, according to a survey which found that overworked family doctors were feeling increasingly stressed.

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