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Overburdened

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Adjective

1. bowed down, loaded down, overburdened, weighed down

heavily burdened with work or cares

Example Sentences:
'bowed down with troubles'
'found himself loaded down with responsibilities'
'overburdened social workers'
'weighed down with cares'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Overburdened

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adjective
loaded with excessive weight, work, etc
an overburdened air-traffic-control system
overburdened teachers
The city's hospitals are overburdened by casualties.
After some years Shortt, overburdened with work, secured an assistant.
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Overburdened

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tr.v. o·ver·bur·dened, o·ver·bur·den·ing, o·ver·bur·dens
1. To burden with too much weight; overload.
2. To subject to an excessive burden or strain; overtax.
n. (ōvər-bûr′dn)
1. An excessive burden; an overload.
2. Geology
a. Material overlying a useful mineral deposit.
b. Sedimentary rock covering older crystalline layers.
3. Archaeology A sterile stratum overlying a stratum bearing traces of the culture being studied.

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