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- to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much: Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
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to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much: Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims. Now 5,000 new children will be attending the district's already overburdened school system. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing difficulties for oneself or others.
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to make someone or something work too hard or carry,...
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to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much: Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims. Now 5,000 new children will be attending the district's already overburdened school system. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing difficulties for oneself or others.
In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body.
OVERBURDEN meaning: to give (someone or something) too much work, worry, etc. to burden (someone or something) too much often used as (be) overburdened.
The meaning of OVERBURDEN is to place an excessive burden on. How to use overburden in a sentence.
Overburden definition: to load with too great a burden; overload. See examples of OVERBURDEN used in a sentence.
overburden in British English. verb (ˌəʊvəˈbɜːdən) 1.(transitive) to load with excessive weight, work, etc. noun (ˈəʊvəˌbɜːdən) 2. an excessive burden or load. 3. geology. the sedimentary rock material that covers coal seams, mineral veins, etc.
