overlade
transitive verbover·lade | \ ¦ō-vər-¦lād 
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\Definition of overlade
: to load with too great a cargo or burden : overload overladen with detail and digression— H. S. Bennett
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overladen \ ¦ō-vər-¦lā-dᵊn \ adjective
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an overladen table
On Indiana's 8,000 acres of tomato fields, plants are so overladen with ripe tomatoes that mechanical harvesters must run at half speed. — Jeff Swiatek, The Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana), 6 Oct. 2014
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