overlade

American  

[oh-ver-layd] / ˌoʊ vərˈleɪd /

verb (used with object)

overladed, overladen, overladed, overlading

1. to overload (usually used in past participleoverladen ).

   a table overladen with rich food.

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Etymology

Origin of overlade

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at over-, lade

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

overlade overladen overlading

Overhang, ō-vėr-hang′, v.t. to hang over: to project over: to impend: to overlade with ornamentation.—v.i. to hang over.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

"Men," he says, "may overlade a ship or barge, and therefore I will skip at once to the effect, and let all the rest slip."

From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Rolling to a stop on his overladen scooter, Shaher Hassan awkwardly balanced five bags and a carton full of cans, plastic bottles and other recyclables mined from the trash that day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

A rescue helicopter, already overladen, spotted Lu Moore in her hunter-orange jacket, trying to traverse a sea of downed trees with her husband and son.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021

For such a symbolically overladen event, the outcome was by no means assured.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

Odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone surrounded us, overladen always by the smell of fish and nearby salt water.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

We then unpacked our box and dried the clothes in it, which were wet through from the overlading of the life-boat.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

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