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Definition of Overburdened
1. Adjective. Heavily burdened with work or cares. "Weighed down with cares"
Definition of Overburdened
1. Adjective. Excessively burdened ¹
2. Verb. (past of overburden) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overburdened
1. overburden [v] - See also: overburden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overburdened
Literary usage of Overburdened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"The preaching was to be in the vernacular, which had at that period almost fallen
into disuse in the pulpit. under the plea of being already overburdened ..."
2. Secret History of the Court of England from the Accession of George the by Anne Hamilton (1901)
"... Whigs and Tories — No Regard for Worth and Talent — Enrichment at the Nation's
Expense—overburdened People — An Unjust Doctrine — The Duke of Richmond's ..."
3. The New Africa: A Journey Up the Chobe and Down the Okovanga Rivers; a by Aurel Schulz, August Hammar (1897)
"... CHAPTER XII Recover our stolen gouts—overburdened with goods—Suspicions—Shoot
enormous ... overburdened ..."
4. The Profession of Teaching by Myra Virginia Woodley (1917)
"School overburdened with work of other institutions. Thus the school came in the
course of time to be regarded ..."
5. The Profession of Teaching by Myra Virginia Woodley, Oscar Isreal Woodley (1917)
"School overburdened with work of other institutions. Thus the school came in the
course of time to be regarded ..."
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