Definitionadj. deeply agitated especially from emotion
Last update: October 23, 2015
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The spy was overwrought by the demands of the job. [adjective]
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In 1854 he was appointed secretary of legation; but the aggressive ultramontanism of the Curia became increasingly intolerable to his overwrought nature, and in 1856 he was transferred, at his own request, as secretary of legation to Dresden. [adjective]
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Perhaps if we could hear Tennyson read it, we should appreciate it better; but, on the whole, it seems overwrought and melodramatic. [adjective]
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Gilles was overwrought. [Please select]
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'She began to cry, being overwrought with this terrible affair.' [Please select]
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In 1844 Miss Barrett published her Poems, which, though somewhat impulsive and overwrought, met with remarkable public favor. [adjective]
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Overwrought, he fell forward, but his comrades caught him. [Please select]
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He could understand and pity; but he, too, was tired and overwrought. [Please select]
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He was in the overwrought mood in which a man damns everything. [Please select]
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The overwrought wife and mother, with every nerve tingling, turned sharply. [Please select]
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But though he tried to speak carelessly, he had plainly been horribly shaken and overwrought. [Please select]
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