overburden in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

overburden in the PONS Dictionary

overburden Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to overburden the people with taxes
accabler le peuple d'impôts
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The narrow streets meant for pedestrians and bicycles are being overburdened with cars, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws.
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For example, to remove overburden that is loose or unconsolidated, a bucket wheel excavator might be the most productive.
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Once coal removal is completed, the mining operators back stack overburden from the next area to be mined into the now empty pit.
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The excavating head itself is 21.6 m in diameter and has 18 buckets each holding 6.6 cubic metres (8.6 yd) of overburden.
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There is a waste rock overburden of about 33 million cubic metres.
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Overburden (waste rock) from the mine has polluted a nearby lake due to acid mine drainage.
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Earthquakes, floods, storms, and other natural hazards cause massive disruption to societies and overburden national economic systems.
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Such structures do not always form when a salt layer is buried beneath a sedimentary overburden.
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Overburden pressure varies in different regions and formations.
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Apart from the power deficit, the equipment used by the power department like transformers, panels and transmission lines is either old or overburdened.
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