OVERLOADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overloaded mean? 

• OVERLOADED (adjective)
  The adjective OVERLOADED has 1 sense:

1. loaded past capacity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERLOADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loaded past capacity

Synonyms:

overladen; overloaded

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

NOTE(S): The term "protocol" is somewhat overloaded and must be qualified to provide semantic context.

(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A device designed to open an electrical circuit when it becomes overloaded.

(Circuit Breaker Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

It is when the system is overloaded over a long period of time that this machinery breaks down.

(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Check your home’s wiring to be sure that no sockets are overloaded, for Uranus rules alternating electrical current.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The overloaded and unwieldy sled forged ahead, Buck and his mates struggling frantically under the rain of blows.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As there were nine boats all told, it meant that we should have plenty of water, and ballast as well, though there was the chance that the boat would be overloaded, what of the generous supply of other things I was taking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft, but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing-place behind the point.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)