Burdened

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  burdened \bur"dened\ adj.
     bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy
     backpack.
  
     Syn: heavy-laden, laden, weighed down.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {heavy-laden}, {loaded down}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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