Usually means: Excess material covering mineral deposits.
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  1. overburden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overburden: Merriam-Webster
  3. overburden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overburden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overburden: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overburden: Vocabulary.com
  7. overburden: Wordnik
  8. overburden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overburden: Wiktionary
  10. overburden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overburden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overburden: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overburden, overburden: Dictionary.com
  14. overburden (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Overburden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overburden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overburden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overburden: Rhymezone
  19. Overburden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overburden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overburden: FreeDictionary.org
  22. overburden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overburden: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Overburden: Energy Dictionary
  2. overburden: Legal dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See overburdened as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To overload or overtax.
noun:  (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam, or any other underground feature.
noun:  (archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated

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