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Overload

noun

An electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power.

An excessive burden. Synonym: overburden.

verb

(past & past part. overloaded; pres. part. overloading)

Become overloaded.

Fill to excess so that function is impaired. Synonym: clog. "The story was clogged with too many details"

Place too much a load on. Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge.

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"Overload" Quotes from Famous Books

... to overload this index with details which, for most readers, would render it inconvenient, only the more important Sculptures and murals among the "Exposition art" have been listed here, together with the different national and historical ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... NATURE DOES NOTHING IN VAIN, contrived such intricate systems of the heavens, as seemed inconsistent with true philosophy, and gave place at last to something more simple and natural. To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phaenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypotheses with a variety of this kind; are certain proofs, that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

... to a very high value beyond the capacity of the motor. Then overload the motor to a point where it ...

— Simple Sabotage Field Manual • Strategic Services

... entertainment provided is just enough to enable you to eat salt together in Arab fashion,—not enough to form the leading feature of the evening. A cup of tea and a basket of cake, or a salver of ices, silently passed at quiet intervals, do not interrupt conversation or overload the stomach." ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... abundance of hard work and a great lack of repose. You have to keep your mind marching in all directions, and to overload your memory. Books have led some to learning, and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. In the mind, as in the body, indigestion does more harm than hunger; food and books alike must be used according to the constitution, and what is little enough for one is ...

— The Great Book-Collectors • Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

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