overload

To put more weight, work, or information on something or someone than they can handle.

• Do not overload the lift.
• They overloaded the truck with heavy boxes.
• The new tasks have overloaded our staff.

How to use it: overload someone/something with something (Do not overload the students with homework.)

Similar words: overburden

Common phrases: overload a truck, overload someone with something, overload the system, overload a vehicle

To make too much electricity flow through a circuit or electrical device.

• Too many appliances can overload a circuit.
• The heater overloaded the wiring and blew a fuse.
• Do not overload that socket with extra plugs.

Common phrases: overload a circuit, overload a socket, overload the wiring

More weight, work, information, or electricity than someone or something can handle.

• I am struggling with information overload.
• An electrical overload shut down the equipment.
• The crowded station caused sensory overload for the child.

Similar words: excess

Common phrases: information overload, sensory overload, electrical overload

A version of a computer function that accepts different types or numbers of inputs.

• This overload accepts a number.
• The compiler selected the overload with two arguments.
• We added an overload that accepts a string.

Common phrases: function overload, method overload, overload for something