EGAVE

overwrought

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb simple past and past participle of overwork
  2. adjective Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
  3. adjective Elaborate; baroque; overdone.

Similar words

agitated distraught jumpy desperate overworked head theatrical nervous overanxious overstrung

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and nerves by with imagination state brain to mind

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