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OVERBURDENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overburdened mean? 

OVERBURDENED (adjective)
  The adjective OVERBURDENED has 1 sense:

1. heavily burdened with work or caresplay

  Familiarity information: OVERBURDENED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERBURDENED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Heavily burdened with work or cares

Synonyms:

bowed down; loaded down; overburdened; weighed down

Context example:

weighed down with cares

Similar:

burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)


 Context examples 


This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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