overloaded

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overload

comparative more overloaded · superlative most overloaded

1. loaded too heavily

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   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?

   2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53

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