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Overburdened   /ˈoʊvərbˈərdənd/   Listen
Overburdened

adjective
1.
Heavily burdened with work or cares.  Synonyms: bowed down, loaded down, weighed down.  "Found himself loaded down with responsibilities" , "Overburdened social workers" , "Weighed down with cares"



Overburden

verb
1.
Burden with too much work or responsibility.
2.
Load with excessive weight.






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"Overburdened" Quotes from Famous Books



... well ventilated and lighted, and in the basement if possible, for obvious reasons, the chief being the relief thus afforded to the otherwise congested kitchen and overburdened kitchen stove, while at the same time one other menace to health—the steam generated by the washing and drying—is removed from the main part of the house. It is highly essential that the laundry be properly and completely equipped for the work of washing, boiling, ...
— The Complete Home • Various

... to relieve the supreme court of the United States, which had come to be overburdened with business, a new court, with limited appellate jurisdiction, called the circuit court of appeals, was organized in 1892. It consists primarily of nine appeal judges, one for each of the nine circuits. For any given circuit the ...
— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

... true to be forgiven. You'll say it, Harriet, if I don't. And to come from a man that was not overburdened with either—But I had too great a command of myself to say so. My dependence, my lord, [This I did say,] is upon your judgment: that will always be a balance to my wit; and, with the assistance of your reproving love, will ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson

... great beam adds, I think, to the interest of the old place, for it is a curve that has grown and was not premeditated; it has grown like the bough of a tree, not from any set human design. This, too, is the character of the house. It is not large, nor overburdened with gables, not ornamental, nor what is called striking, in any way, but simply an old English house, genuine and true. The warm sunlight falls on the old red tiles, the dark beams look the darker for the glow of light, the shapely cone of the hop-oast rises at the end; there are swallows ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... door, and the rain beats with greater force against the little window. The mother draws still nearer to the few red embers, and turns a timid glance to the window and then to the bed: another sigh, and then the overburdened heart overflows at her eyes, and the large bright drops fall quickly on that dearly ...
— Yorksher Puddin' - A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the - Pen of John Hartley • John Hartley


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