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"overwrought" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is usually used to mean "emotionally or mentally exhausted". For example, "After all the worry and stress, John was feeling overwrought."
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Overwrought
adjective
In a state of excessive nervousness, excitement, or anger; extremely tense, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; uneasy.
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We could all be doing something useful, like going to Darfur, so let's not get overwrought".
However, it's generally advised that some time elapses before a friendship is renewed, as the post-break-up period is inevitably emotionally overwrought.
For me, it's just indulging my passion for overwrought choreography, pure performance and cheesy music.
He's young – the youngest sitting senator, actually – and an early Obama supporter, given to occasional bouts of (understandably) overwrought emotional rhetoric.
In one, Borderlines (aka The Caretakers, 1963), she gives an incredibly overwrought performance as a patient in a hospital for mentally ill people.
It's an overwrought system.
Many, however, wonder whether the overwrought response is making the Falun Gong look stronger than it truly is.
Forster, meanwhile, is clearly rapt by Masood's elaborate and overwrought style, which he feels speaks to his true self.Forster's affection for India was coupled with a quiet distaste for colonial Britons.
The overall picture, in the only slightly overwrought words of the New York Times, one of the newspapers that published the documents, is of a "legal and moral disaster".
This firebrand in tight jeans brings out both Nazneen's dormant sensuality and some of the most overwrought writing in the book: "Though they began with a gentle embrace, tenderness could not satisfy her, nor could she stand it, and into her recklessness she drew him like a moth to a flame".Such purple passages aside, Nazneen emerges as a credible, quietly dignified character.
GATED, gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools.
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