Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Loaded or burdened too heavily.
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- adjective packed heavily, especially beyond normal capacity; overloaded: a tray overladen with food, a trunk overladen with clothes
- adjective burdened excessively: a student overladen with homework, first-time parents overladen with new responsibility
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- adjective loaded past capacity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Usually I am not the greatest fan to frosting; I absolutely hate overladen cupcakes!
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Usually I am not the greatest fan to frosting; I absolutely hate overladen cupcakes!
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England's failure to give even county cricket's most prestigious matches breathing space is the biggest sin in a grossly overladen calendar.
County Championship scheduled for earliest start on record 2011
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Even old guys like me can make the small move, to leave a state overladen with idiots and head for one not quite so bad.
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"Unfortunately, a clunky plot overladen with coincidences mars this effort; if it spins off into a series, though, it bears watching."
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Now the German captain was aiming to get his overladen ship back home.
The Wolf That Ravaged the Pacific Richard Guilliatt 2010
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Now the German captain was aiming to get his overladen ship back home.
The Wolf That Ravaged the Pacific Richard Guilliatt 2010
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Now the German captain was aiming to get his overladen ship back home.
The Wolf That Ravaged the Pacific Richard Guilliatt 2010
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I don't like Republicans and conservatives because of what I understand of their world view 'that the haves should be protected and helped, their interests looked after above all else, and the have-nots should maybe hope the haves gain so much that perhaps many more crumbs from their overladen table will fall to the needy below.
To This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In 2009
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From their mink coats and jewels to their ornate taste in home furnishings, to their overladen tables of food, to their enthusiasm for fund-raising to help suffering Jews in Israel, to their child-rearing patterns that induced guilt but avoided physical violence, to their ambitions for their sons and daughters, little in their way of life was not a potential target of mockery.
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