load down with
phrasal verb
loaded down with; loading down with; loads down with
: to burden or oppress with something heavy, laborious, or disheartening
Our teachers loaded us down with homework.
The company is loaded down with debt.
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The company burned nearly $2 billion in cash, in the quarter, weakening its balance sheet, which is loaded down with $58 billion in debt.
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David Koenig, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
The company burned through nearly $2 billion in cash in the quarter, weakening its balance sheet, which is loaded down with $58 billion in debt.
—David Koenig and Manuel Valdes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
However, a sleeper hit on the menu is actually the Italian sandwich, a behemoth loaded down with meats and cheeses on a hoagie sub roll.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024
As the hours passed, his bag would get loaded down with protein drinks and snack bars.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
Large container ships might sail just two feet above the river bottom when they’re loaded down with heavy cargo, per USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The Hickox, meanwhile, was making the opposite journey, from Muskegon to Chicago, loaded down with lumber and towing a packed schooner barge.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
In a black and white image from 1940, a group of people of varying ages stand on the side of a road next to a car loaded down with bags and belongings.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Eight feet may be near for a young adult who sees that the person behind them is loaded down with packages — while a parent, distracted in the rush to pick up a sick child from school, might reasonably consider that far.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
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David Koenig, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
The company burned through nearly $2 billion in cash in the quarter, weakening its balance sheet, which is loaded down with $58 billion in debt.
—David Koenig and Manuel Valdes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
However, a sleeper hit on the menu is actually the Italian sandwich, a behemoth loaded down with meats and cheeses on a hoagie sub roll.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024
As the hours passed, his bag would get loaded down with protein drinks and snack bars.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
Large container ships might sail just two feet above the river bottom when they’re loaded down with heavy cargo, per USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The Hickox, meanwhile, was making the opposite journey, from Muskegon to Chicago, loaded down with lumber and towing a packed schooner barge.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
In a black and white image from 1940, a group of people of varying ages stand on the side of a road next to a car loaded down with bags and belongings.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Eight feet may be near for a young adult who sees that the person behind them is loaded down with packages — while a parent, distracted in the rush to pick up a sick child from school, might reasonably consider that far.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
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“Load down with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/load%20down%20with. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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