Word Meanings - OVERTASK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To task too heavily.

HEAVILY
1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century. 2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence,
HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED
subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled.