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

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 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

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

She even took pains to water the garden, and one morning I saw her tending the pumpkin vine, which was overladen with blossom.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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 McDougall, Henriette