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overwrought as in: overwrought from lack of sleep
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She is exhausted, nervous, and overwrought for good reason.
overwrought = emotionally upset
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She is overwrought from pressure and lack of sleep.
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Two days after arriving in the latter community, he brazenly knocked on the door of Edward Weston, who was sufficiently charmed by the overwrought young man to humor him. (source)
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Cynthia panicked, and they argued, overwrought. (source)
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A palsy shook his hand or perhaps he was overwrought. (source)overwrought = emotionally upset
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But when I peered more closely, I saw this girl was a stranger: some overwrought graduate student, no doubt. (source)
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We have much to discuss, and you are obviously too overwrought to participate. (source)
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Since the position is outside of Oria Province, his mother became overwrought and upset. (source)overwrought = overly nervous or agitated
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The problem was that with just under a month to go until the exams and every free moment devoted to revision, his mind seemed so saturated with information when he went to bed he found it very difficult to get to sleep at all; and when he did, his overwrought brain presented him most nights with stupid dreams about the exams. (source)overwrought = overly nervous
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My overwrought senses screeched to a halt. (source)overwrought = nervous or emotionally upset
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She pulls a lace-trimmed handkerchief out of her pocket—evidently she had one all along, but was too overwrought to use it before. (source)overwrought = emotionally upset
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At age eleven, I was too young to glimpse a vision of what sort of overwrought wife and mother Mary Beth Baird would make; there in the vestibule, I wanted only to hit her—to forcibly take Owen's clothes and leave her in a puddle of tears. (source)overwrought = overly agitated or nervous
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Inside their cedar tree they spoke of everything in the intense and overwrought manner of teenagers and he found that she had many moods. (source)overwrought = excessively emotional, anxious, or upset
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So what can this "great work" and its spirituality, sexual politics, code of machismo, and overwrought violence teach us?† (source)overwrought = emotionally upset
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overwrought as in: overwrought special effects
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The director's use of special effects in the movie was so overwrought that it distracted from the storyline.
overwrought = overdone
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While the cake was delicious, the decoration was a bit overwrought, with too many colors and shapes competing for attention.
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The awesome power of the new genetic technology, which he had formerly considered to he just so many words in an overwrought sales pitch—the power suddenly became clear to him. (source)
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I'd always found the Colonel's I-hate-the-rich routine a little overwrought until I saw him with his mom. (source)
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Laughing at my own overwrought imagination, I moistened the paper in the basin water and worked the stamp gently free. (source)overwrought = overly dramatic
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Langdon found Bellamy's sense of drama to be somewhat overwrought. (source)overwrought = overdone (overly dramatic)
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His works, culminating in the overwrought and infamous, if not always successful, Lady Chatterley's Lover, opened the way for more sexual directness. (source)overwrought = overdone (too elaborate or complicated)
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Perhaps her eye had become jaded, but Eve's initial scan of the room left her thinking, Overdone, overwrought, and overexpensive. (source)
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Mrs. Wharton wears a confection of a dress—beaded and feathered and overwrought. (source)
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