Overburden is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERBURDEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to overload, also OVERBURTHEN
• load (someone) with too many things to carry
• give (someone) more work or pressure than they can deal with
• To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.
• burden with too much work or responsibility
• load with excessive weight
• to overload
NOUN:
• rock or soil overlying a mineral deposit, archaeological site, or other underground feature
• an excessive burden
• The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
• the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place an excessive burden on

Words related to OVERBURDEN

overburdened19 overburdening20 overburdens17 overlade12

Words that contain OVERBURDEN

overburdens17 overburdened19 overburdening20 overburdensome22

How to use OVERBURDEN in a sentence

• Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
• Machine-gun detachments should not overburden the marching columns.
• Its laws permit, rather than require, an overburden of officials, high and low.
• Under present circumstances they are crowded in one place and overburden the commerce and the industry of the Pale of Settlement.
• Besides, it was useless to overburden themselves for the few days the journey would last.

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