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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 cares
Familiarity information: OVERBURDENED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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