Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal;
- Example: "saddled and spurred and ready to ride"2.
subject to an imposed burden;
- Example: "left me saddled with the bill"- Example: "found himself saddled with more responsibility than power"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Saddle \Sad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Saddling.] [AS. sadelian.]
1. To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
"saddle my horse." --Shak.
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Abraham rose up early, . . . and saddled his ass.
--Gen. xxii.
3.
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2. Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to
encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges
and highways.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Saddled \Sad"dled\, a. (Zool.)
Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle;
saddle-backed.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
saddled
adj 1: having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal;
"saddled and spurred and ready to ride" [ant:
unsaddled]
2: subject to an imposed burden; "left me saddled with the
bill"; "found himself saddled with more responsibility than
power"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "saddled":
beholden, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, burdened,
charged, committed, cumbered, duty-bound, encumbered, fraught,
freighted, hampered, in duty bound, indebted to, laden, loaded,
obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, oppressed, overburdened,
overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded,
overtaxed, overweighted, pledged, taxed, tied, under obligation,
weighted, weighted down