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• v  burden with too much work or responsibility
• v  load with excessive weight
• s  heavily burdened with work or cares
  overburdened social workers

• The resulting flood of impoverished East Pakistani refugees has placed an intolerable strain on India's already overburdened economy.
• The money will go to local communities overburdened by booming casinos and help defray the increased costs of local government services.
• They inevitably wind up seeking medical attention from overburdened emergency rooms.

• overburden
• bowed down
• loaded down
• weighed down

News & Articles

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• For Designer Consignment Online, Is Authentication A Pipe Dream Or A Differentiator?
  There have been a slew of offerings in the online consignment space over the past 24 months: The Real Real, Poshmark, ShopHers and more, all connecting overburdened clotheshorses with aspiring fashionistas hoping to score designer pieces at steep discount. For all of them, proving the goods are real is a critical issue.
  June 20, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Joe Barton in Washington Post
  In short, what we don't need is creating at the FDA a new draconian bureaucracy, since they're already overburdened and have more work than they know what to do with,said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and...
• Zackie Achmat in Washington Post
  The biggest problem we have now is that our health care systems are overburdened with very sick people who come in too late,said Zackie Achmat, chairman of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign.