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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
  • Memories of preventable overdoses, suicides, stabbings, medical neglect and overcrowded cells still haunt him.
    Zane Irwin, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • As the Trump administration ramps up its mass-deportation efforts, immigration authorities have erected a plexiglass tent at the Krome detention center in South Florida, a facility that has recently been so overcrowded that detainees have been sleeping on the floor.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 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 20 May. 2025.

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