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- became overwrought when she heard that her child was missing
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- the author's prose is overwrought with purple passages and florid metaphors
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- bedaubed,
- flashy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glitzy,
- loud,
- ostentatious,
- pretentious,
- showy,
- swank
- (or swanky),
- tawdry
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“Overwrought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overwrought. Accessed 7 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of overwrought was in 1638
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