overloaded

Definitions

1. loaded too heavily
2. of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
3. past participle of sobrecargar
4. of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

Equivalents

Examples

“Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work⟳ and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make⟳ an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have⟳ a handful of locals on board⟳?”

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