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."