Definition of overladen in English:
overladen
adjective əʊvəˈleɪd(ə)nˌoʊvərˈleɪdn
Having too large or too heavy a load.
figurative the film is overladen with tear-jerking moments
Example sentencesExamples
- Though overladen with quotations, it offered a coherent and plausible account of the evolution of the earth's crust and insisted that the present could be used to explain what had happened in the past.
- Budgets sometimes touch the stratosphere, as the guest list keeps growing and the overladen food tables groan.
- In their place stand pool tables, ‘ergonomic’ chairs, and a bar so overladen with fluorescent drinks that one daren't approach without first applying sunscreen.
- A branch overladen with monkeys crashed suddenly to the ground - sending them leaping and howling into space, scampering away upon landing.
- Anyway, the drive home along the coast road gave me ample time to wonder what possesses people in clapped-out, overladen vans to drive at 30 kmph without regard to gradient, curves or following traffic.
- Many times I have left the theater dismissing a film because of its overladen special effects.
- The car is so overladen with baggage that we can't see out the back window and four of us are white-knuckled with fear that the car will topple over and roll back down the hill.
- When in flight, females stayed close to the ground and always appeared clumsy and overladen.
- Dangerously overladen, completely off balance, the bus lurches across the bridge.
Definition of overladen in US English:
overladen
adjectiveˌōvərˈlādnˌoʊvərˈleɪdn
Having too large or too heavy a load.
figurative the film is overladen with tear-jerking moments
Example sentencesExamples
- The car is so overladen with baggage that we can't see out the back window and four of us are white-knuckled with fear that the car will topple over and roll back down the hill.
- Budgets sometimes touch the stratosphere, as the guest list keeps growing and the overladen food tables groan.
- Many times I have left the theater dismissing a film because of its overladen special effects.
- A branch overladen with monkeys crashed suddenly to the ground - sending them leaping and howling into space, scampering away upon landing.
- Anyway, the drive home along the coast road gave me ample time to wonder what possesses people in clapped-out, overladen vans to drive at 30 kmph without regard to gradient, curves or following traffic.
- Dangerously overladen, completely off balance, the bus lurches across the bridge.
- Though overladen with quotations, it offered a coherent and plausible account of the evolution of the earth's crust and insisted that the present could be used to explain what had happened in the past.
- In their place stand pool tables, ‘ergonomic’ chairs, and a bar so overladen with fluorescent drinks that one daren't approach without first applying sunscreen.
- When in flight, females stayed close to the ground and always appeared clumsy and overladen.