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    Use "overburden" in a sentence

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    overburden


    overburdened


    overburdening


    1. The parliament of England has not, upon any occasion, shewn the smallest disposition to overburden those parts of the empire which are not represented in parliament


    2. Along Serangoon Street, I came to understand that, in reality, “Little India” had become a true Eden of enchantment for tourists who wish to overburden themselves with souvenirs


    3. If you know someone who is a recovering liberal, they just shed the overburden which had been placed on them


    4. [2] Any overburden the mining company considers excess (that which it's not able to place back onto the ridge top) is moved into neighboring valleys


    5. ‘Get to the point,’ said Demery, not rudely but wanting DC Potter not to overburden his story with trivial detail


    6. This creates an overburden on your neck


    7. No operator shall dump any overburden materials in the coal dump yard or


    8. in the ring? One extra resume can’t really overburden the system!


    9. A massive dragline the size of her apartment building swung back and forth, its bucket clawing into the earth and digging out two hundred cubic yards of overburden and dumping it into neat piles


    10. Otherwise, this would overburden calculations and lower the efficiency of the evaluation procedures

    11. What I mean is: don’t overburden yourself with dozens of trading monitors and a bank of TV screens in every corner of the room


    1. You are feeling overburdened and do not know whether you are coming or going


    2. If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity


    3. Rather than succumbing to an adoption system overburdened with orphans, my siblings and I ran to the fringe—the same place where your mother also took refuge, years later—and only I came out of there alive


    4. It was an isolated existence with overburdened housework


    5. Entire coal seams are removed from the top of a mountain, hill or ridge by removing the so-called overburdened soil, lying above the economically desired resource)


    6. overburdened machine could easily pass from one cave to the


    7. ably invulnerable to competition, not overburdened with depre


    8. Because Nuke feared that knowing their contents would place even more responsibility on his overburdened shoulders, he delayed having them interpreted for several weeks


    9. George had found another occasional lover to seduce in his attic and Marvin took me to a private house where an oleaginous Catholic priest held court among a gaggle of somewhat histrionic and nervous queers overburdened by their unwanted outlaw status


    10. Here are temptations and obsessions that lure and capture you, leaving you feeling overburdened and trapped, and this is all of your own making

    11. Those who derived most benefit from his personal ministry were overburdened, anxious, and dejected mortals who gained much relief because of the opportunity to unburden their souls to a sympathetic and understanding listener, and he was all that and more


    12. You will in this way be delivered through spiritual transformation rather than be increasingly overburdened with the deceptive suppression of mortal desires


    13. Bill shoved him out of the overburdened


    14. overburdened by the loot


    15. mother, she was overburdened with a feeling of claustrophobia


    16. that was overworked, overburdened, understaffed, and worst of


    17. Thus each individual should have a work ethic instilled but should not be overburdened with so many tasks that they are a drudgery and the children have no time for play


    18. (overburdened with shame) are more likely have Mercury elongated from the sun


    19. overburdened mind that panics will rarely make the best choice


    20. sides an overburdened and harried householder is expected to act in a

    21. Indeed, the Messenger’s worry and sorrow for creatures were so great so that they overburdened him and tired out his back, so, this verse denotes: “have We not released you from this weighty burden when We acquainted you with the way of indication?”


    22. Indeed, the Messenger’s worry and sorrow on behalf of all creatures were so great that they overburdened him and made his back feel exhausted


    23. As usual, only a few minutes passed before he came out but, how odd! He had gone into the room in a very lively way, but when he came out he appeared to be overburdened and exhausted, contrary to his usual manner


    24. " Mistress Canossa, your fragile state of mind has overburdened you to the point that your husband has given me permission to work with you, until you're well in mind, body and spirit


    25. Kermes Twa said, “ Your love adds balance to their overburdened scales, the warmth of home fires burning in the darkest night of the soul


    26. Mistress Canossa, your fragile state of mind has overburdened you to the point that your husband gave me permission to work with you, until you're well in mind, body and spirit


    27. " Your love adds balance to their overburdened scales, the warmth of homefires burning in the darkest night of the soul


    28. Despite the complications it might cause and the already overburdened state it was in, the agency agreed to assign their own male nurse to the job


    29. Emory couldn’t wait much longer; on foot he wouldn’t be able to keep up with the overburdened horse


    30. Tom's mother, overburdened with catastrophe and grief from

    31. he loathed the army…it was an ant colony of overburdened organisation and control and


    32. Thomas was overburdened from the start


    33. It was at that moment that Rincewind's one remaining ring, already overburdened, slid out of the rock with a nasty little metal sound


    34. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore


    35. For a short while, our Friday-night gig was at The Crow’s Nest, a pub in Widnes, a short drive in Allan’s Ford Anglia, overburdened with guitars and equipment, along the north bank of the Mersey into rugby league territory, where the accent tips to the sort of flat Lancastrian dialect that sounds as if the speaker has just been hit with a plank of wood


    36. Companies with low costs that are not overburdened by debt are safe bets at these times, primarily because nobody wants to own them


    37. He told them that steps would be taken immediately to free his serfs- and that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates


    38. "The Reds will think just as I thought—that you, being like nine out of ten of us, not overburdened with worldly wealth, had taken this way of earning an honest penny to help yourself through the year


    39. Gilbert's mother, who was a gay, frank, light-hearted lady, but not overburdened with tact, had a very embarrassing habit of asking Anne, always in a painfully distinct voice and always in the presence of a crowd, if she had heard from Gilbert lately


    40. He told them that steps would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates

    41. This was desirable, also, from the consideration that the Committee of Claims is generally overburdened with business


    1. overburdening populations and ultra-conservative policies


    2. Rather than risk the consequence of overburdening herself before she can even get to the place where she knows the world ends, Mary raises her head and tries not to let her eyes wander the spire’s wispy and oftentimes-moving surface


    3. For example, if you have a single e-mail server for your entire organization, connecting it to one of the horizontal networks forces all of the e-mail client traffic from the entire internetwork to travel to that segment, possibly overburdening it


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    Synonyms for "overburden"

    overburden overload overtax overwork

    "overburden" definitions

    the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits


    an excessive burden


    burden with too much work or responsibility


    load with excessive weight