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[syn: burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
burdened \bur"dened\ adj.
bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy
backpack.
Syn: heavy-laden, laden, weighed down.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Burden \Bur"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burdened; p. pr. & vb.
n. Burdening.]
1. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a
heavy load upon; to load.
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I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened.
--2 Cor. viii.
13.
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2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload;
as, to burden a nation with taxes.
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My burdened heart would break. --Shak.
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3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a
burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.]
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It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.
--Coleridge.
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Syn: To load; encumber; overload; oppress.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
burdened
adj 1: bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or
responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load
of paper work" [ant: unburdened]
2: bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs
burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with
packages" [syn: burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "burdened":
bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, charged,
cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged,
full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, holding, laden, loaded,
maintaining, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught,
overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted,
propping, saddled, shoring, supercharged, supporting, supportive,
suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, taxed, upholding, weighted,
weighted down