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Overburden vs Overburdened - What's the difference?

overburden | overburdened |

As verbs the difference between overburden and overburdened

is that overburden is to overload or overtax while overburdened is past tense of overburden.

As a noun overburden

is the rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.

As an adjective overburdened is

excessively burdened.

overburden

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To overload or overtax

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 163:
  • *:Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
  • (archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated

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    overburdened

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Excessively burdened

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (overburden)