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overburdening

overburdening is the present participle and gerund of overburden.

Meaning of overburden

Verb

overburden (third-person singular simple present overburdens, present participle overburdening, simple past and past participle overburdened)

  1. (transitive) To overload or overtax.
    • In reality, the levels of work varied: some internationals seemed overburdened with tasks and responsibility, some seemed underburdened, and some faced apparently just the right amount of work.2007, Kimberley Coles, Democratic Designs, →ISBN

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Forms of overburdening

comparativemore overburdening
superlativemost overburdening

Words formed from overburdening

Questions about overburdening

What is overburdening the present participle and gerund of?
Overburdening is the present participle and gerund of overburden.

Words near overburdening in the dictionary

  1. overbuoyant
  2. overburden
  3. overburdened
  4. overburdenedness
  5. overburdeneth
  6. overburdening
  7. overburdeningly
  8. overburdens
  9. overburdensome
  10. overbureaucratization
  11. overburn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overburdening (page history and authors); overburden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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