Cryptic crossword clue
Burden after maiden perhaps put on too much weight

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word OVERLOAD

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What does OVERLOAD mean?

OVERLOAD noun
  1. An excessive load.
  2. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
  3. An overloaded version of a function.
OVERLOAD verb
  1. To load excessively
  2. To provide too much power to a circuit
  3. To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
  4. To fail due to excessive load

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