Overtask

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To task too heavily, to give someone or something to many tasks; overburden
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To task too heavily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To impose too heavy a task or duty upon: as, to overtask a pupil; to overtask the memory.
  • Word Usage
    "Operation comes to overtask us, either through the admixture of useless matters, or through the multiplicity of instruments, or through the bulk of the material and of the bodies that may happen to be required for any particular work."
    Verb Form
    overtasked