overload
verb (used with object)
to load to excess; overburden.
had overloaded
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past perfectof overload.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Flooding of the Thames had overloaded sewers and caused toilets to back up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
A girl knocked out by a kitchen cabinet she had overloaded with canned beans.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
As he headed to the kitchen, he eyed the two cabinets under the bread box, their doors ajar because I had overloaded them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
The city smelt smoke: a circuit in an apartment building had overloaded.
From Nature ● Jun. 6, 2017
Like all new troops in the field, they had overloaded themselves with baggage, and being thus overloaded, straggling was universal in the regiment, until they became endured to the fatigues and hardships of the march.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
