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Overburden   /ˈoʊvərbˈərdən/   Listen
Overburden

verb
1.
Burden with too much work or responsibility.
2.
Load with excessive weight.
noun
1.
The surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits.
2.
An excessive burden.  Synonym: overload.





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"Overburden" Quotes from Famous Books



... still held by the ship, they had either been dispersed, or they could no longer be used. Besides, it was useless to overburden themselves for the few days the journey would last. In food, in arms, in munitions, they were more than provided for. Meanwhile, Dick Sand, by Mrs. Weldon's advice, did not neglect to take all the money which he found ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... epithet 'minor'—is the straining of the machine by forcing it to do work which it was never intended to do. Although we are incapable of persuading our machines to do effectively that which they are bound to do somehow, we continually overburden them with entirely unnecessary and inept tasks. We cannot, it would seem, ...
— The Human Machine • E. Arnold Bennett
... ship-keepers on board, and they would be no obstacle in the way of the ship's company to which the captain had alluded. But the leader of the enterprise had another object in view, though it was only secondary in its nature. He was afraid to overburden the mind of Corny, and he ...
— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic


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