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to overburden
noun
The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
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"We don't want to overburden the town.
We did not want to overburden him.
He did not want to overburden Wales's existing medical staff.
In an interview in Belgrade in 2010, Gencic said she took great care not to overburden Djokovic.
They say solar generation is growing so fast that it threatens to overburden consumers with high electricity bills.
This year, officials are limiting the number of transfers, saying they did not want to overburden other schools.
Many magistrates are now choosing not to award compensation to victims – or prosecution costs – in order not to overburden defendants with unrealistic fines, The Independent has learnt.
In addition, she said, the project is not expected to overburden the town's roads, because it will be close to a new interchange planned along the Garden State Parkway, where construction is to get under way this summer.
You don't want to overburden the transit system or to build where a transit system doesn't exist, as happened with some of the new development along the Brooklyn waterfront.
Serious speculations, on the other hand, have tended to overburden the modern essay, especially in German and in French, and to weigh it with philosophy almost as pedantic as that of academic treatises, though not as rigorous.
On Saturday, the health organization, which was rushing to develop a diagnostic test, said that doctors should test for the virus only if the patient is severely ill, so as not to overburden the health care system.
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