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To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. My burdened heart would break. Shak.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney.

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Wyclif. For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down. Shak. Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen ! Milton.

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload. Spenser.

law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

o make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back. Swift.

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

ur memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it. I. Watts.