Major life changes, such as changes in income level or legal and financial issues, can also create mental and physical feelings of stress and anxiety, which can overload the ability to function well.
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Overload
//ˌəʊvəˈləʊd//
Synonyms for "overload" (118 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (59)
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Noun(1 words)
Verb(3 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 29 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- претоварване noun (excessive load)
- претоварвам verb (to load excessively)
- претоварвам verb (to provide too much power to a circuit)
Catalan
2 entries- enfarfegar verb (to load excessively)
- recarregar verb (to load excessively)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 超載 /超载 verb (to load excessively)
- 重载 verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Czech
3 entries- přetížení noun (excessive load)
- přetížit verb (to load excessively)
- přetížit verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Danish
2 entries- overbelastning noun (excessive load)
- overbelaste verb (to load excessively)
Dutch
1 entries- overladen verb (to load excessively)
Finnish
4 entries- ylikuorma noun (excessive load)
- ylikuormitus noun (excessive load)
- kuormittaa verb (to create different functions for the same name)
- ylikuormata verb (to load excessively)
French
3 entries- surcharge noun (excessive load)
- surcharger verb (to load excessively)
- surcharger verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Georgian
1 entries- გადატვირთვა noun (excessive load)
German
4 entries- Überladung noun (excessive load)
- Überladung noun (overloaded version of a function)
- Überlastung noun (excessive load)
- überladen verb (to load excessively)
Greek
1 entries- υπερφόρτωση noun (excessive load)
Greenlandic
1 entries- artukkiineq noun (excessive load)
Hungarian
3 entries- túlterheltség noun (excessive load)
- túlterhelés noun (excessive load)
- túlterhel verb (to load excessively)
Ido
1 entries- supercharjar verb (to load excessively)
Indonesian
1 entries- beban lebih noun (excessive load)
Irish
1 entries- anluchtaigh verb (to load excessively)
Italian
2 entries- sovraccaricare verb (to load excessively)
- sovraccaricare verb (to provide too much power to a circuit)
Japanese
2 entries- 過積載 noun (excessive load)
- 過負荷 noun (excessive load)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- iwwerlueden verb (to load excessively)
Polish
1 entries- przeładować verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Portuguese
1 entries- sobrecarregar verb (to load excessively)
Romanian
4 entries- sarcină excesivă noun (excessive load)
- suprasarcină noun (excessive load)
- supraîncărcare noun (excessive load)
- supraîncărca verb (to load excessively)
Russian
3 entries- перегру́зка noun (excessive load)
- перегружа́ть verb (to load excessively)
- перегрузи́ть verb (to load excessively)
Spanish
2 entries- sobrecarga noun (excessive load)
- sobrecargar verb (to load excessively)
Swedish
4 entries- överbelastning noun (excessive load)
- överdos noun (excessive load)
- överflöd noun (excessive load)
- överlagring noun (overloaded version of a function)
Tagalog
1 entries- tambanggalan noun (excessive load)
Turkish
4 entries- aşırı yükleme noun (overloaded version of a function)
- fazla doldurma noun (excessive load)
- fazla yükleme noun (excessive load)
- aşırı yüklemek verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Ukrainian
3 entries- переванта́ження noun (excessive load)
- переванта́жити verb (to load excessively)
- переванта́жувати verb (to load excessively)
Vietnamese
4 entries- chồng hàm verb (to create different functions for the same name)
- nạp chồng hàm verb (to create different functions for the same name)
- quá tải verb (to load excessively)
- tải bội verb (to create different functions for the same name)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Never overload the mule.
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You're overwhelming me with details. I'm suffering from information overload.
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Choice overload can paralyze people into avoiding decision-making.
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