to overload
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈloʊd/
- The teacher realized that she might overload her students with too much homework.
- overload someone with information
- become overloaded
- avoid overloading
And so it turns it on and then stops it from overloading.
- And so it turns it on and then stops it from overloading.
- And so you can have a steady stream of product going out without overloading on everything like drop a dress a week.
- I I think that one other thing, because I don't want to overload you with this, that might be helpful as well to realize heading in.
- But it's, it's important to not overload your schedule or day because that's if you start because that thing, for example, the castle, we had it for so many days.
- Tim Hayward overloaded his fund with Greensill paper backed by Sanjeev Gupta's GFG alliance at valuations that some considered questionable.
- In any case, you can overload your subcutaneous fat, but you have to work at it.
- But things are actually starting to improve already in terms of targeting rather than overloading.
Examples
-
It can overload the system.
-
With thousands of videos available, it's easy to be overloaded with resources.
Academic text (2007) -
But at the same time, you do not want to overload skin.
-
A little bit of oil or just overload it with the cream.
-
But in real life I find that when people overload their skin with skin care, it makes the life of the foundation much shorter.
-
To manage both the course material and the media may overload both instructors and students.
Academic text (1990) -
To ask teachers to squeeze one more important task into an already overloaded day is unreasonable.
Academic text (2012) -
Ahead of them on the track is an overloaded wagon with barrels marked "TNT."
Fiction book (2001) -
If you overload the device with apps, it will start to slow down.
-
Driving with an overloaded truck can be dangerous and lead to accidents.
Synonyms
Give someone too much work or problems so they cannot cope
To give someone a heavy load or a difficult task
To try to do more than you can handle and cause strain
To give someone too much work or responsibility
To use something too much so it loses its quality or value
To put too much weight on something so it becomes unsafe
To make someone work too hard until they are tired
To push someone or something beyond what they can manage
To give someone more work than they can do
To make someone very tired so they cannot work or think well
Antonyms
Compounds
How Loaded
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overload combines over- 'too much' and load 'to put things on or in something', just like when you 'load' a truck. So to overload someone or something is to give it more than it can carry or handle, which can make it stop working properly.