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overwrought
Overwrought means overcome with emotion or in a state of high excitement and anxiety, or a creative work that is too elaborate and overdone. (adjective)
- When you are so overcome with joy about your husband coming home from war that you cannot contain yourself or express your emotions, this is an example of a time when you areoverwrought.
- When a piece of poetry uses every rhyme scheme and literary tool imaginable and becomes way too complicated to be considered a good poem, this is an example of a poem that would be described asoverwrought.
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