How to pronounce “overwrought”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (archaic) simple past and past participle of overwork
• [Adjective]
• Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
• Elaborate; baroque; overdone.

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