overtasks

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