Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overloaded. See overfreight, v.

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Examples

  • _L'Alleg. _ 124, "her grace whom" = the grace of her whom. ~surcharged~: overloaded, 'overfraught' (l.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Some years ago, this man at my feet, whose overfraught heart is heaving as if it would burst from his breast, and whose tears are wet upon the dress I wear, was a galley-slave in the North of Italy.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

    A Tale of Two Cities 1859

  • All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

    A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1841

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