overtake

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The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature�we must not think too much of her fancies."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a light gleamed, save, in some lofty casement, the fainting candle of the worn-out needlewoman or of the overtasked student.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

The next moment found them locked in each other's arms; overtasked nature could stand no more, and they both cried like children.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Those organs are intimately concerned in its disposal in the system, and hence are overtasked if it is taken in too great a quantity.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

Without wearying the overtasked child, Mildred kept up a strain of pleasant conversation that stimulated curiosity and raised interest.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette