overloaded

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overloaded

1. simple past and past participle of overload

overloaded (comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

1. loaded too heavily
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:

     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?

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