overload
verb (used with object)
to load to excess; overburden.
were overloading
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past progressiveof overload.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
“It was just obvious that we were overloading the click wheel with too much,” Grignon says.
From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2017
