OVERBURDEN Synonyms

• an onerous or difficult concern

• weight to be borne or conveyed

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

• weight down with a load

• impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

• restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

• charge someone with too many tasks

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• overcome by superior force

• a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal

• a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)

• cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins

• a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe

• a seat for the rider of a bicycle

• posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl

• put a saddle on

• load or burden; encumber

• impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• special emphasis attached to something

• difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

• (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body

• to stress, single out as important

• put stress on; utter with an accent

• test the limits of

• to suffer from stress

• charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

• levy a tax on

• set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

• use to the limit

• make a charge against or accuse

• the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

• sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

• the relative importance granted to something

• an artifact that is heavy

• an oppressive feeling of heavy force

• a system of units used to express the weight of something

• a unit used to measure weight

• (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

• weight down with a load

• present with a bias