overloaded

overloaded is the simple past and past participle of overload.

Adjective

overloaded (comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

loaded too heavily
- Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent...2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53
of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

overload (third-person singular simple present overloads, present participle overloading, simple past and past participle overloaded)

(transitive) To load excessively.
(transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
(transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
(intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

comparative	more overloaded
superlative	most overloaded

What does overloaded mean?: Overloaded means loaded too heavily.
What is overloaded the simple past and past participle of?: Overloaded is the simple past and past participle of overload.
What part of speech is overloaded?: Overloaded is an adjective.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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