Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overloaded. See
overfreight , v.
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Examples
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_L'Alleg. _ 124, "her grace whom" = the grace of her whom. ~surcharged~: overloaded, 'overfraught' (l.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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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.
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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
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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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