overwrought
About 0.28 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb simple past and past participle of overwork
- adjective Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
- adjective Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
Similar words
agitated distraught jumpy desperate overworked head theatrical nervous overanxious overstrung
Often followed by
and nerves by with imagination state brain to mind
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