overlaboured

overlaboured
adjective /əʊvəˈleɪbəd/
a) Overworked, exhausted.

Oh, Hesperus! thou bringest all good things— / Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, / To the young bird the parents brooding wings, / The welcome stall to the o’erlaboured steer [...].

b) Laboured, over-elaborate.

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