'overload' definitions:
Definition of 'overload'
From: WordNet
noun
An electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
noun
An excessive burden [syn: overload, overburden]
verb
Become overloaded; "The aerator overloaded"
verb
Fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details" [syn: clog, overload]
verb
Place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn: overload, surcharge, overcharge]
Synonyms of 'overload'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adorn,
- bale,
- bear hard upon,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- choke,
- congest,
- congestion,
- convolute,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- decorate,
- drag,
- drench,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- engorgement,
- enrich,
- festoon,
- flourish,
- freight,
- gild,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- gorge,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- hindrance,
- hyperemia,
- impede,
- impediment,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- involve,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lade,
- lading,
- lie on,
- load,
- load with ornament,
- loading,
- millstone,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- ornament,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overlade,
- overlay,
- overspill,
- overstuff,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweigh,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- pack,
- plethora,
- press hard upon,
- pressure,
- repletion,
- rest hard upon,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- saddling,
- satiate,
- satiety,
- saturate,
- saturation,
- soak,
- strain,
- stuff,
- supercharge,
- superincumbency,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- tax,
- taxing,
- trick out,
- try one,
- varnish,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon