overloaded

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of overload

Adjective

(comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

loaded too heavily
of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
(computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

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His work was overloaded with rhetorical embellishment, which he was the first to introduce into Roman history.
Supplied by his own works, as well as by the manner in which it is overloaded with miraculous events.
Stream valleys and bottom lands are the conspicuous modifying feature of the prairie region; but in general, owing to the gentle slope of the streams and the great breadth of the plains, erosion has been slight; and indeed the streams, overloaded in seasonal freshets, are building up their valley floors.
Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss Keller's imagined view of an outer world that to our eyes is confused and overloaded with particulars.
There is now and then an energetic phrase, but as a whole the vocabulary is jejune; the sentences are overloaded; the pitch is flat.

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