overburdening
Weighing down excessively
Overburdening is loading someone or something with too much weight, work, or responsibility.
The word implies strain beyond reasonable capacity: The new regulations are overburdening small businesses.
Systems, people, and institutions can all be overburdened—an overburdened court system, an overburdened caregiver, an overburdened electrical grid.
Intensely excessive in force
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- unreasonableNot guided by reason
- unmanageableImpossible to control
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
excessive · disproportionate · unsustainable · unbearable · intolerable · overloading · overtaxing · overextending
Chronic occupational depletion
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
- strainExcessive stretching force
- tensionStretched or strained state
- pressureForce upon contact
fatigue · distress · anxiety · overwork · breakdown · overwhelm · frazzled · depleted
Demanding great care
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- laboriousRequiring considerable effort
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
backbreaking · punishing · taxing · draining · exhausting · fatiguing · debilitating · enervating
Forced onto others
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- enforcedMade to be followed
- compulsoryRequired, not optional
- requiredNeeded by rule
nonnegotiable · inflexible · binding · inescapable · unavoidable · duty-bound · obligated · encumbered
overwhelming
Intensely excessive in force
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- unreasonableNot guided by reason
- unmanageableImpossible to control
oppressive · excessive · disproportionate · unsustainable · unbearable · intolerable · overloading · overtaxing · overextending · overworking
burnout
Chronic occupational depletion
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
- strainExcessive stretching force
- tensionStretched or strained state
pressure · fatigue · distress · anxiety · overwork · breakdown · overwhelm · frazzled · depleted · drained
exacting
Demanding great care
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- laboriousRequiring considerable effort
strenuous · backbreaking · punishing · taxing · draining · exhausting · fatiguing · debilitating · enervating · sapping
imposed
Forced onto others
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- enforcedMade to be followed
- compulsoryRequired, not optional
required · nonnegotiable · inflexible · binding · inescapable · unavoidable · duty-bound · obligated · encumbered · saddled
- overloadoverload, overwhelmed, excess, surplus, maxed out
- animal crueltyanimal abuse, animal cruelty, dogfighting, neglect, torture
overburdeninglightening
Making lighter in weight/shade
unburdening · unloading · relieving · offloading · easing
overburdeningrelieving
Reducing discomfort or strain
alleviating · easing · sparing · supporting · assisting
burden, burdened, burdensome, unburden, unburdened, overburden, overburdened, overburdens