Sample sentences for OVERWROUGHT

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Definition

emotionally upset

More rarely, overwrought can mean that something is overdone (too elaborate). In architecture, furniture, or art, overwrought can also mean that something is decorated on the surface.

She is exhausted, nervous, and overwrought for good reason.

overwrought = emotionally upset

She is overwrought from pressure and lack of sleep.

overwrought = emotionally upset

I felt myself being drawn into that strange domain where the overwrought imagination of Edgar Allan Poe was at home.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
We had a merry enough time trimming the hat with silk flowers and bows, although several times I broke down in tears because I was overwrought.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
She pulls a lace-trimmed handkerchief out of her pocket—evidently she had one all along, but was too overwrought to use it before.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
She was only overwrought, as who would not be?
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
It happened in that fashion that men call illusion, or the imaginings of people overwrought, or an intimation of the divine.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
She has been overwrought lately.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Nor can I let you chivvy me into hasty action concerning Gospodin Wright, not when we are tired and overwrought.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Since the position is outside of Oria Province, his mother became overwrought and upset.
Ally Condie -- Matched
Presently he said, "I shall feel better when I get to bed; I have been overwrought today; yes, and overworked for many days."
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
"Thou'rt overwrought with passion; it disorders thy mind.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Cynthia panicked, and they argued, overwrought.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
It was small wonder if the maid were taken with the picture we presented, of a poor, sick, overwrought lad and his most tender comrade.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
When we were locked in each other's arms, my overwrought feelings could no longer be restrained.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
To my surprise I found myself quite popular and very likely I'd have been cured of my overwrought sensibilities except for two things.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
Mr Dorrit's overwrought heart bounded as he leaped up.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Stella could, and did, act as though it was no use answering the accusations of an overwrought woman.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
His mother noticed how overwrought he was.
D. H. Lawrence -- The Rocking-Horse Winner
He nodded to De Santis, the harassed Lab Chief, who inquired in an overwrought voice: "One to one?"
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man

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