"overburthen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1774, Isaac de Pinto, translated by S. Baggs, An Essay on Circulation and Credit, London: J. Ridley, page 122:",
          "text": "The over burthen of these expenses falls upon the sale of the commodity, and lessens the consumption.",
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          "text": "1832, John W. Colenso, \"A Description of Happy-Union Tin Stream-work at Pentuan\" in Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, T. Vigurs, Vol. 4, p. 38 https://books.google.ca/books?id=TjK_HG0RIdoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nThe overburthen contains no sea-sand, but is composed of silt and river gravel […] ."
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    {
      "form": "overburthening",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "overburthened",
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      "form": "overburthened",
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          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:",
          "text": "In short the last man in the world, one would think, to be overburthened with thoughts, especially those perilous thoughts that must needs belong to a conspirator in any serious project, or even to the underling of such a conspirator.",
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          "text": "1832, John W. Colenso, \"A Description of Happy-Union Tin Stream-work at Pentuan\" in Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, T. Vigurs, Vol. 4, p. 38 https://books.google.ca/books?id=TjK_HG0RIdoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nThe overburthen contains no sea-sand, but is composed of silt and river gravel […] ."
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