adjective
- loaded with too great a burden or cargo; excessively laden
Usage: often used in nautical or transportation contexts
verb
- past tense and past participle of 'overlade'; to load with too much cargo or burden
Usage: nautical or formal usage; less common in modern English
Examples
- The ship was overladed with cargo and sat dangerously low in the water.
- The truck became overladed after the workers added more supplies than it could safely carry.
- An overladed schedule left her exhausted and unable to focus on any single task.
- The captain refused to overlade the vessel, knowing it would compromise safety.
- The overladed donkey struggled to climb the mountain path.
- They overladed the wagon with hay until the wheels began to creak.