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third-person singular simple present overburdens, present participle overburdening, simple past and past participle overburdened
To overload or overtax. quotations examples
He said the increase would avoid overburdening taxpayers who have subsidised the railways by £31 billion since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
2023 January 11, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Division over 5.9% increase in regulated rail fares”, in RAIL, number 974, page 16
plural overburdens
(geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam. quotations
Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 163
(archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated