释义 |
overburdeno‧ver‧bur‧den /ˌəʊvəˈbɜːdn $ ˌoʊvərˈbɜːrdn/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEoverburden |
Present | I, you, we, they | overburden | | he, she, it | overburdens | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overburdened | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overburdened | | he, she, it | has overburdened | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overburdened | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overburden | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overburdened |
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Present | I | am overburdening | | he, she, it | is overburdening | | you, we, they | are overburdening | Past | I, he, she, it | was overburdening | | you, we, they | were overburdening | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overburdening | | he, she, it | has been overburdening | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overburdening | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overburdening | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overburdening |
- Public health systems are already overburdened by patients with no insurance.
- At times, without ill intent, we overburden ourselves.
- Finally, I think the tests will simply overburden an already hard-pressed system, and prove unworkable.
- Resist the temptation to overburden your notes with too much information. 4.
to give an organization, person, or system more work or problems than they can deal with: Health services have been overburdened and are unable to care for many older people. a manager overburdened with workGRAMMAR Overburden is usually passive. |