overladen
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈleɪdn/
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sobrecargado
- The truck was overladen with so many boxes that it struggled to move up the hill.
Examples
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She felt overladen with responsibilities after taking on too many projects at work.
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I came to a gravesite overladen with flowers, new enough so there was no marker, old enough so the flowers were sodden and wilted.
Fiction book (1991) -
This whole situation conjures up an image of an overladen rubbish truck struggling to go uphill when suddenly it's about to run out of fuel and its brakes are also about to fail.
Blog text (13) -
It is a tribute to the Dakota that, overladen as it must surely have been and with the Somalis doing a brisk trade, refilling and pumping their primuses repeatedly to keep them going, no one appeared to harbor the least doubt of his safe arrival.
Fiction book (2000) -
The restaurant's menu was overladen with options, making it hard to choose what to eat.
Synonyms
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2.9
Full of a lot of something, often too much
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4.5
Carrying heavy things or having serious worries that make you feel tired
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4.2
Has more than it can safely hold, for example weight, work, or electricity
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4.6
Having too much work or responsibility to manage
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5.5
Contains more goods than people want to buy
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5.3
Having more work, duties, or worry than you can handle
Feeling very weighed down by work, problems, or responsibilities
Carrying a large load, for example snow on branches
Antonyms
How Loaded
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overladen is made from over- meaning 'too much' and laden meaning 'loaded', the same idea as the common word load. So something overladen is carrying more than it can handle, like a table or truck groaning under too many plates or boxes.