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overloaded

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verb

past tense of overload
as in overburdened
to fill or load to excess try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overloaded
Adjective
  • Tulsa Zoo was overcrowded with just three elephants in 2022, but adding Billy and Tina will make seven elephants jammed into an enclosure less than one percent the size of their natural range.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • Smalls was killed after leaving through a rear entrance of an overcrowded awards afterparty that was also attended by Combs.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Applicants must meet one of 46 distinct eligibility criteria and fill out mountains of paperwork – a long and difficult process for a population already overburdened by bureaucracy.
    Pascale Leone, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • After a mapping campaign in Toledo, Ohio, officials found that the city’s hot spots often overlapped with census tracts identified by the Biden administration’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool as lacking in commercial investment and overburdened by pollution.
    Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Houck loaded the bases with one out in the first Wednesday but only allowed one run.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Trevor Story’s ground out with the bases loaded pushed across the winning run.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The 124th Running of The Dinner Party Stakes A crowded field turned toward the final stretch of the 1 1/8-mile turf run, the last race before the evening’s main event, before Fort Washington pulled away with Cash Equity surging.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
  • These animals were housed in crowded stables, transported in train cars across the country and shipped overseas.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
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“Overloaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overloaded. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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