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- adjective
Laden with too muchfreight .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if the neighborhood zest was overfreighted with purpose to find such trees I had not found it out.
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A silence fell upon the decks of the _Cygnet_ and upon the overfreighted boats laboring towards her.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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Pomp must go too, and pride; we shall be overfreighted else.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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Immediately they turned for shore, the canoes were overfreighted, and as the sea rose, frequently shipped water.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891
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Overweighted with stars, overfreighted with light,
Poets of the South 1891
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Overweighted with stars, overfreighted with light,
Poets of the South 1891
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The car moved slowly, like some overfreighted leaking ark, away from their shack and past the white house where Mr.. McIntyre was sleeping soundly -- hardly guessing that her cows would not be milked by Mr. Shortley that morning -- and past the Pole's shack on top of the hill and on down the road to the gate where the two Negroes were walking, one behind the other, on their way to help with the milking.
AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955
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