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Overload

noun

An electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power.

An excessive burden. Synonym: overburden.

verb

(past & past part. overloaded; pres. part. overloading)

Become overloaded.

Fill to excess so that function is impaired. Synonym: clog. "The story was clogged with too many details"

Place too much a load on. Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge.

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"Overload" Quotes from Famous Books

... overload this long essay with too many parentheses, apart from its thesis of progress and precedent, I append here three notes on points of detail that may ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... pronounced it unsafe and unsuited for the use to which it is put. The Attorney-General in his report states that the library of the Department is upon the fourth floor, and that all the space allotted to it is so crowded with books as to dangerously overload the structure. The first floor is occupied by the Court of Claims. The building is of an old and dilapidated appearance, unsuited to the dignity which should ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • William McKinley

... Do not overload me, or hitch me where water will drip on me. Keep me well shod. Examine my teeth when I do not eat. I may have an ulcerated tooth, and that, you know, is very painful. Do not fix my head in an unnatural position, or take away my best defense against ...

— Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual - Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State • Various

... of old, when Time was young, And poets their own verses sung, A verse would draw a stone or beam, That now would overload a team; Lead 'em a dance of many a mile, Then rear 'em to a goodly pile. Each number had its diff'rent power; Heroic strains could build a tower; Sonnets and elegies to Chloris, Might raise a house about ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... of to-day is not scholarly and grand. He is soiled, ignorant and sedentary in his habits. An orator ought to take care of his health. He cannot overload his stomach and make a bronze Daniel Webster of himself. He cannot eat a raw buffalo for breakfast and at once attack the question of tariff for revenue only. His brain is not clear enough. He cannot digest the mammalia of North America and seek out the delicate intricacies of the financial ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

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