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Overburdened

adjective

Heavily burdened with work or cares. Synonyms: bowed down, loaded down, weighed down. "Found himself loaded down with responsibilities" , "Overburdened social workers" , "Weighed down with cares"

Overburden

verb

Burden with too much work or responsibility.

Load with excessive weight.

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"Overburdened" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am not content. I am overburdened with curiosity. I say to myself: "What sort of trees, pine or cedar?" I think, pine, but I am uneasy lest they should be hemlock. Were the rocks all perpendicular, or did not detached bowlders line the path? ...

— Outdoor Sketching - Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 • Francis Hopkinson Smith

... and even overburdened with oppressive thought, he sat down on the wooden bench in his cell. The rats still gnawed and frolicked, and prowled at will. Herbert listened to them for a moment; then he thought of his dear mother and father, of his home, his own ...

— The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey

... there, a certain pride has manifested itself in the dog-drivers, and dog-owners, who aim now to use only the dogs really fitted for the work. Even the Eskimos, who were notorious for their indifferent handling of their ill-fed, overburdened beasts, have joined in the "better dog" movement, which is ...

— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling

... little Providence Rescue Mission in Pittsburgh for assistance and work. In one week 1,027 applied to the Urban League of this City for work, and 8 received it." He states, further, that the usual uplift or philanthropic agencies were overburdened in their efforts to help these unfortunates. Two prominent Negro churches volunteered their services and rendered valuable assistance to the regular relief organizations in the matter of feeding and housing these migrants. The situation, ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... were some exceptions; this appeared to satisfy him. He went into the labor-yard, looked at the cranks, examined the numbers printed on each in order to learn their respective weights, and see that the prisoners were not overburdened. ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

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