as in to overload
to fill or load to excess
it is important that you bring on the hike plenty of food and water, but don't overburden your pack with unnecessary gear
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Recent Examples of overburden
This has both overburdened her and led to accusations of her growing authoritarianism.
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Tej Parikh, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2017
Here's how some key players in the industry are taking control of their energy demands without overburdening the grid.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
By taking advantage of priority charging features, users can keep their daily drivers like laptops and tablets in the leftmost ports to keep them topped up and ready to go, while adding lower priority devices further down the line to charge overnight without overburdening the power source.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Without spoiling where the Grace story is going, the new episodes acknowledge what happened without overburdening our hero or his friends with her actions, and then move onto other things as quickly as possible.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
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Tej Parikh, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2017
Here's how some key players in the industry are taking control of their energy demands without overburdening the grid.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
By taking advantage of priority charging features, users can keep their daily drivers like laptops and tablets in the leftmost ports to keep them topped up and ready to go, while adding lower priority devices further down the line to charge overnight without overburdening the power source.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Without spoiling where the Grace story is going, the new episodes acknowledge what happened without overburdening our hero or his friends with her actions, and then move onto other things as quickly as possible.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for overburden
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“Overburden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overburden. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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