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Meaning of overtoil | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.

transitive

Examples

“Then dozed awhile herself, but overtoil'd / By that day's grief and travel, evermore / Seem'd catching at a rootless thorn, and then / Went slipping down horrible precipices, / And strongly striking out her limbs awoke; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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