[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To load with too heavy a burden, to overload; to overburden. Now only in passive.


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English; earliest use found in John Trevisa (c1342–?1402), translator. From over- + lade. Compare Middle Dutch overladen (Dutch overladen), Old High German ubarhladan (Middle High German überladen, German überladen)