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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overtask .
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Examples
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Kittys delicate ways had me all the more overtasked.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked … Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Religion & Faith 2007
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked … Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Religion & Faith 2007
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked … Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Religion & Faith 2007
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This was as prime a point of honour with him as with the generous elephant with whom we have already compared him, who, being overtasked, broke his skull through the desperate exertions which he made to discharge his duty, when he perceived they were bringing up another to his assistance.
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‘Did you mark his telling her she was tired and did too much, and overtasked her strength?’
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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No, I'd guess that in an overtasked and underfunded CF, this particular problem simply never reached the top of enough people's "to do" piles.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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No, I'd guess that in an overtasked and underfunded CF, this particular problem simply never reached the top of enough people's "to do" piles.
It's not just 2007
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Daring speculations fail; the struggle in unnatural competition with men of large capital, or dishonourable dealings, wears out at last the overtasked frame — life is spent in a whirl — death summons them, and finds them unprepared.
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At 4 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2000, overtired and overtasked national leaders broke days of deadlock when Germany compromised by accepting a skewed voting system for the EU.
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