overburden
verb (used with object)
to load with too great a burden; overload.
had overburdened
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past perfectof overburden.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In comparison, the three most-affected countries already had overburdened health care infrastructure before the Ebola outbreak.
From Time ● Oct. 22, 2014
At the start, without experience in campaigning, the men had overburdened themselves with impedimenta which it was very soon necessary to dispense with.
From The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War by Dudley Landon Vaill
The harsher and more rigid observances with which many sectarians had overburdened the holy day, were kept up by some of the denominations, but could not be maintained in the National Church.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
The negative aspect of Erasmus's mind may be defined as a heartfelt aversion to everything unreasonable, insipid, purely formal, with which the undisturbed growth of medieval culture had overburdened and overcrowded the world of thought.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
Most of Narvaez's men met with their death at the bridges, from the weight of the gold with which they had overburdened themselves.
From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
