overworry

"[I] f you keep your eye on the screen and don't overworry the plot particulars, you will be rewarded with a cavalcade of charming, gently outré and beautiful hallucinations," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times.

GreenCine Daily: Paprika. 2007

But do not overworry -- remember, these particular heaps are of books that fall out of Horn Book review scope -- adult books, vanity press titles, book-and merchandise, etc -- or extra copies sent by publishers who couldn't restrain themselves to the requested two.

This is your library. This is your library hung over. Roger Sutton 2007

Broh's message explained that everything in the previous communication was the result of overwork and overworry and the pressures of a difficult command in which he did not yet feel comfortable.

Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

Broh's message explained that everything in the previous communication was the result of overwork and overworry and the pressures of a difficult command in which he did not yet feel comfortable.

Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

This forces pupils into a very high degree of regularity in their work; at the same time it has most effect upon the most conscientious pupils; if it does not lead them to overdo in work, it is liable to make them overworry about the work, and girls suffer far more from this overworry than boys.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

And she told me to say to thee that she could not come to-day, but that she would make amends, and that thou hadst no cause to overworry, and I know not what she meant, but this much I do know, a brave man is a brave man whether it be the scaffold or the stocks, and – and – thou hast gotten thyself into a fever, Harry.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

In the winter of 188 --, I was afflicted by a series of nervous ailments, brought on by overwork and overworry.

A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889

"By sentimentality -- by nervous overworry about matters which you should leave in other hands."

A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884

Frequently, however, it is not so much overwork as overworry that most affects the health of the child, -- that worry which may not always be traced to any fault of system or teacher, but which, it must be admitted, is too often induced by encouraging wrong motives to study.

Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked 1871

We all choose to overspend, overgive, overeat, overimbibe, and worst of all: overworry.

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