overlade

American  

[oh-ver-leyd] / 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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

overlade overladen overlading

"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

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

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

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

While Franny takes to the seas, the narrative needles through her past, which is overladen with abandonment, disappointment and death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2020

In the worst incident, in late April, a grotesquely overladen fishing trawler capsized and sank within sight of a rescue ship; of the estimated 800 migrants aboard, only 28 were saved.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015

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