Verb (used with object) : He was overburdened with cares. From Dictionary.com.
Dr John Dunford, said the exam system was "overburdened". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Many traditionally popular sites are overburdened. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Off The Beaten Track] Reference
And his office is both short-handed and overburdened. From Wordnik.com. [Why He's Failing] Reference
Tired, overburdened, and slightly crazed with power, Ollie did do it. From Wordnik.com. [Forgotten] Reference
And bitter tears rolled down his face to the relief of his overburdened heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The other clerks were overburdened, while Pat in his humble place had little to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Those vacancies are causing the federal courts to be overburdened, delaying justice. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Fredrickson: Justice Suffers As Nominations Languish] Reference
The goal, he said, is to bolster an embattled and overburdened U.S. middle class. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Seeks Overhaul of US Transportation Infrastructure] Reference
I overburdened Congress with an array of controversial and politically costly requests. From Wordnik.com. [Jimmy Carter: Tea Party Will Likely Be A 'Major Factor' In November, But Less Of A Force In 2012] Reference
He lived in a small three-room house, with eight or nine children and an overburdened wife. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
Otherwise the already overburdened teachers would have had to lead the kids in jumping jacks. From Wordnik.com. [IF YOU WANT OUR VOTE, LOOK PAST THE LABEL] Reference
The Land Claims Commission, set up to address apartheid-era wrongs, is hopelessly overburdened. From Wordnik.com. [Land Grab] Reference
I'd come to town to report a story on the badly overburdened West German social-welfare system. From Wordnik.com. [Reporter's Notebook: The Story Of A Lifetime] Reference
The skipped heart tests mark the failing of our overburdened, financially-strapped health care system. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Elaine Schattner: Skipped Heart Tests at Harlem Hospital Flag a Stressed Medical System] Reference
"" Teachers are already overburdened, '' says Theodore Rabb, history professor at Princeton University. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Small World, After All] Reference
But it had no enforcement mechanism, and overburdened case workers had more urgent concerns than credit. From Wordnik.com. [Sabotaged By the System] Reference
You don't need to run a business with an overburdened IT department to see the promise of cloud computing. From Wordnik.com. [Living in the Clouds] Reference
SummaryHillary Clinton and John McCain are offering overburdened motorists a federal "gasoline tax holiday.". From Wordnik.com. [Gas Price Fixes that Won't] Reference
But the Ministry of Defense says that defense factories producing the construction materials are overburdened. From Wordnik.com. [How Much Hunger?] Reference
The following week, parts of a major road circling Beijing were closed, further tightening overburdened roadways. From Wordnik.com. [China Traffic Jam Could Last Weeks] Reference
At the moment, its entire link to the Internet passes along one, crushingly overburdened telephone line to Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Chat Rooms And Chadors] Reference
All I see is very, very slow growth with non-proven experiments added to already overburdened school environments. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Hard truths or sour grapes?] Reference
The boards that review proposed studies are overburdened, understaffed and shot through with conflicts of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Dying For Science] Reference
It shows the extent to which local authorities are overburdened by illegal immigrants who land in their jail cells. From Wordnik.com. [An Ounce of Prevention] Reference
Congress insists it intended only to target China, and State argues that Foggy Bottom is understaffed and overburdened. From Wordnik.com. [Left On The Launch Pad] Reference
Yet in practice, getting India's overburdened courts to process a divorce if one spouse objects can take up to 15 years. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Brides And Ex-Wives] Reference
The rapidly graying population has also fueled concerns about Japan's overburdened public pension and medical care system. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo's Oldest Listed Person Is MISSING] Reference
Last year a Webcast of the chain's annual runway show crashed after 20 minutes when overheated males overburdened the site. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
In the 1960s, '70s and' 80s, whenever the United States felt overburdened, it became extraordinarily tough with its allies. From Wordnik.com. [Business: Going Up In Flames] Reference
Fiorina here is repeating the lie that California's job woes are created by overburdened companies seeking less regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Fiorina Routed In CA-Sen Debate] Reference
No political system can handle more than a few big issues at a time, and ours is already overburdened by balancing the budget. From Wordnik.com. [Call It The Flaky Tax] Reference
Unless the old debt is sharply written down, GM would be overburdened and its rendezvous with bankruptcy would merely be delayed. From Wordnik.com. [How to Bail Out General Motors] Reference
They were angry about everything -- seemingly unstoppable immigration, overburdened public services, rising crime and unemployment. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden Death] Reference
The street and freeway system in our town is so fragile and overburdened, that it does not take much to create a traffic nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Silberberg: It's Time to Try the One-Way Street Plan] Reference
While the infrastructure of the U.S. not only fails to lead the world or even advance competitively, but is overburdened and crumbling?. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen Reardon: The Precarious Genius of the Middle Class] Reference
Among other things, the data suggested men are deeply upset at being under-appreciated by women and still overburdened with responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Moral Minority] Reference
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