load down with

verb

loaded down with; loading down with; loads down with

: to burden or oppress with something heavy, laborious, or disheartening

Our teachers loaded us down with homework.

The company is loaded down with debt.

Examples of load down with in a Sentence

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Flight director Diane Dailey told us the controllers are watching for things like if the astronauts are loaded down with equipment, which indicates that would not be a good time to call unless urgent. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2026

The book switches between fonts, is interrupted with text boxes holding seemingly random information, is loaded down with footnotes, and includes paragraphs and columns of text that are upside down, reversed, or running vertically across the page. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 June 2026

This Tex-Mex favorite is loaded down with peppers, corn tortillas, a can of Ro-Tel, and plenty of Cheddar cheese. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 May 2026

An assistant speeds back and forth, loaded down with pallets of snacks, her long hair streaming behind her. — Jade Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026