Connecting too many light strands can overload circuits, cause outlets and plugs to overheat and melt, or create fire hazards.

Don’t overload the washer or it won’t work properly. fig. I can’t go out tonight – I’m overloaded with work (= I have a lot of work to do). If you overload an electrical system, you put too much electricity through it.

OVERLOAD definition: to load to excess; overburden. See examples of overload used in a sentence.

Define overloaded. overloaded synonyms, overloaded pronunciation, overloaded translation, English dictionary definition of overloaded. tr.v. o·ver·load·ed , o·ver·load·ing , o·ver·loads To load too …

To overload someone with work, problems, or information means to give them more work, problems, or information than they can cope with. ...an effective method that will not overload staff with yet more …

[~ + object] to load too much: The bus was overloaded with passengers. to (cause to) use too much electricity: [no object] The circuits overloaded. [~ + object] You overloaded the circuits.

OVERLOADED definition: 1. having or supplied with too much of something: 2. having or supplied with too much of…. Learn more.

Other forms: overloaded; overloading; overloads To overload is to load an excessive amount in or on something, such as an overload of electricity which shorts out the circuits.

My boss is overloading me with extra work. That outlet is overloaded and could start a fire. The barge had an overload of cargo. Fires can start from circuit overloads.

Definition of overload verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Want to learn more? overload somebody (with something) to give someone too much of something He's overloaded with …