overtask

Verb

overtask (third-person singular simple present overtasks, present participle overtasking, simple past and past participle overtasked)

1. (transitive) To task too heavily; to give someone or something too many tasks; to overburden.
   • We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purpose--that of...1910, Charles John Griffiths, A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi
   • Each man, after death, was called upon to make the "Negative Confession," to prove that he had not sinned against his fellows, that he had not oppressed or taken bribes, had not judged wrongfully, had not injured a slave or overtasked the poor man, had not murdered or stolen, lied or committed...1899, Archibald Sayce, Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations