as in to overload
to fill or load to excess
it is important that you bring on the hike plenty of food and water, but don't overburden your pack with unnecessary gear
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Recent Examples of overburden
This was a fitting feature for an episode about a young programmer designing a Choose Your Own Adventure game and for Black Mirror, a show that continues to explore the manipulative and frightening downsides to life overburdened with technology.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 May 2025
Food and building supplies are scarce; prices are skyrocketing and a crisis is quietly building, residents say, as hunger and malnutrition spread and already overburdened government services, from healthcare to education, are stretched.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
Asha Sharma, state policy manager for Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability, said her organization uses CEQA to reduce the polluting effects of projects in neighborhoods already overburdened by environmental problems.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
After all the criticism, the skepticism, the downright sanctimony about the most controversial topic in New York sports — the exhausting, overburdening minutes — the Knicks lost a game, the narrative will go, because neither Hart nor Brunson played enough of crunch time.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 May 2025
Food and building supplies are scarce; prices are skyrocketing and a crisis is quietly building, residents say, as hunger and malnutrition spread and already overburdened government services, from healthcare to education, are stretched.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
Asha Sharma, state policy manager for Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability, said her organization uses CEQA to reduce the polluting effects of projects in neighborhoods already overburdened by environmental problems.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
After all the criticism, the skepticism, the downright sanctimony about the most controversial topic in New York sports — the exhausting, overburdening minutes — the Knicks lost a game, the narrative will go, because neither Hart nor Brunson played enough of crunch time.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overburden
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Garbage trucks will arrive to pick up trash when bins reach fully loaded.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Laughs are loading for this year’s New York Comedy Festival.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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For instance, if a colleague of color shares an experience of racial bias, responding with emotional upset (even if valid) can shift the focus back to the person in power, burdening the individual seeking support.—
Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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His fiscal choices are reckless, favoring insiders while burdening taxpayers.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
13 July 2025
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“Overburden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overburden. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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