(v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.
(n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Example Sentences:
(1) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
(2) Routine surgical exploration or arteriography can be very expensive and time-consuming and can overburden available resources if used in all patients.
(3) The problem is the conflict between information and disinformation – particularly, in preventing overburdening web interfaces and search results with augmented content.
(4) A combination of HPV testing and repeated cytologic screening would provide reasonably sensitive screening for cervical neoplasia while limiting the use of colposcopic services, which are currently overburdened.
(5) Many junior faculty are overburdened with clinical demands and do not have a well-focused research agenda.
(6) What may seem like minor tweaks to make something more palatable to overburdened policymakers could actually have lasting implications, creating winners and losers on the global stage – we need to learn from the MDGs, scale up our ambitions and face inequity head-on.
(7) There was, for instance, a symbolically overburdened childhood moment, recalled by Christopher at Hay, in which he was sitting in the garden admiring stuff when he saw a shadow looming, a shadow that he claims was that of Peter wielding a rake.
(8) The author realizes that there is little motivation for frequently overburdened faculties and underfunded medical schools to undertake the needed changes; he describes various problems that challenge the existence of the health care system, including the increasing (and well-meaning) involvement in educational matters by legislators and bureaucrats.
(9) Such overburdening is implicated in caregiver burnout.
(10) The service system is overburdened and poorly coordinated.
(11) The telephone log method may provide a useful way of generating enough observations for single subject analyses without overburdening the patient with repeated testing.
(12) The cause of this change is most probably the reversibly impaired contractility of the heart muscle after fatigue of the left ventricle as a result of a certain degree of overburdening.
(13) I'm sure the nation's social workers, currently struggling as they are with overburdened case loads involving a variety of troubled, vulnerable individuals with a range of complex needs are slapping their heads as we speak.
(14) The general situation of pediatric care in Asturias is characterized by the imbalance between the two levels of care, with a high number of hospital beds and staff members, requiring a redistribution in number and functions, and a deficit in staff and material resources at the primary care level, with massified practices and overburdened care activities.
(15) In a small room off the tunnel at Wycombe’s ground, as a tea urn belched steam into the freezing January air, he bemoaned, in his characteristically sulky way, a recruitment policy that had left him overburdened with attacking players but bereft of defensive cover.
(16) To prevent overburdening of existing in center programs, expansion of training facilities statewide for home care dialysis is suggested.
(17) It is questioned whether the health care system can adequately respond to the health requirements of the many when resources are drained, health care providers are overburdened, and primary health care is fragmented because of AIDS.
(18) It has sometimes felt as though social workers are dodgy salesmen – or, more often, overburdened saleswomen – stressing the positives and skimming over the challenging, if entirely excusable, character traits of children they are trying to house.
(19) The data can be interpreted as demonstrating that the nursing staff is overburdened with administrative work.
(20) Cooperation of orthopaedists and specialists in sports medicine is the prerequisite of restricting possible negative sequelae of local and general overburdening.
Overtax
Definition:
(v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.
Example Sentences:
(1) This overtaxes the attention, mechanical memory, and patience of the brain injured pupil.
(2) The girl had not attended school regularly for almost 2 years, had stayed at home and was overtaxed psychosocially.
(3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
(4) The voice prosthesis renders possible a reliably reproducible voice, which is superior (period of uninterrupted sound production, basal frequency, voice intensity) to the other techniques (esophageal speech, external vibrators, other surgical reconstructive measures), but has the following disadvantages: high initial phonation pressure, formation of granulation tissue around the voice shunt, blockage or leakage of the prosthesis or the voice shunt, displacement of the prosthesis, spontaneous occlusion when the prosthesis is accidentally removed, overtaxing the patients who have difficulties in replacing and cleaning the prosthesis.
(5) By assuming the workload associated with breathing, mechanical support averts ventilatory failure, prevents respiratory arrest, assures CO2 removal and pH homeostasis, while permitting the overtaxed respiratory muscles to replenish energy reserves as the primary process is addressed.
(6) The water from an overtaxed sewer system floods my basement and again I pump it out.
(7) Indirect antidepressive treatment consisting in: counselling of the parents or treatment for them (psychotherapy, psychotropic medication), family therapy, or admission of the child to a home; learning and teaching hygiene: preventing the child from becoming overtaxed as a result of his difficulty in learning and his impaired performance, recourse to conditioning procedures, demotion to a lower class at school, or transference to another school; initial and follow-up psychotherapy or cognitive therapeutic procedures in cases of 'endogenous' depression.
(8) The demand for amniocentesis and laboratory analysis of the fluid will soon overtax existing facilities.
(9) Compared with a control group of "only aggressive" patients, organic brain damage owing to complications of pregnancy or delivery, overtaxing upbringing by the parents and absence of a positive father figure could be demonstrated in the zoosadists.
(10) Rock has suggested that inverted faces are difficult to recognise because they overtax a mechanism for correcting disoriented stimuli.
(11) Growth of the rat facial skeleton over a 40 day period from birth was examined relative to 8 length and 4 width parameters of animals subject to somatic growth retardation experimentally induced by overtaxing the maternal lactational capacity by means of excessively large cross-fostered litters.
(12) All patients are overtaxed by their situation; the conversion reaction is used as a means to express anxiety and maintain self-assertion at the same time.
(13) Although the performance of disturbed behaviour has adaptive value, it simultaneously demonstrates an overtaxed and unhealthy state.
(14) To test the hypothesis that this is in part due to dysfunction of overtaxed inspiratory muscles, we studied 3 patients with BIDP before and after 2, 5, and 18 wk of daily intermittent external surface negative pressure ventilation (ENPV).
(15) Both reactions lead to an inadequate handling of the child and in consequence to overtax or overprotection.
(16) Such overload might concurrently or sequentially also overtax a suggested limited right hemisphere language capacity, in terms of the hypothesis, accounting for the right-sided pain sometimes presenting in these cases.
(17) Indeed, in patients with hypercapnia, increased exercise might overtax respiratory muscles, which are weak relative to those of eucapnic patients.
(18) When humans are primarily impaired or overtaxed in their more elaborate abilities of coping with the social environment they seem to fall back on more primitive coping behaviours known from other mammals in severe conflict situations.
(19) Daimler’s goals are more straightforward: to make the business of long-haul trucking less reliant on overtaxed drivers.
(20) The problems of most patients were not emergencies; most had experienced symptoms of their presenting complaint for more than six months, finally overtaxing the coping capacities of their caregivers.