overburdenverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈbɜː.dən/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈbɝː.dən/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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- pitchfork sb into sth
- pose
- shoot
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- suicidal
- wrong-foot
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