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verb

Burden v. t. (past & past part. burdened; pres. part. burdening)

To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. "I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened."

To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. "My burdened heart would break."

To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). (R.) "It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell."

Synonyms: To load; encumber; overload; oppress.

adjective

burdened adj. Bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.

Synonyms: heavy-laden, laden, weighed down.

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Etymology of 'Burdened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Burdened" Quotes from Famous Books

... ye heavy burdened little brethren of mine. Waste not your substance upon tops and marbles, nor yet upon tuck (Do ye still call it "tuck"?), but scrape and save. For in the neighbourhood of Paternoster Row there dwells a good magician who for silver will provide you with a "Key" that shall open wide for you ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... ply the shears and make fruitless their toil when they must; and all that we acquire upon our journey does but make that burden more certainly ours. What was I but a predestined wanderer—and fool if you will—burdened with my inheritance of honourable blood, of religion, of candour, and of unprejudiced enquiry? How under the sun could I—-? But let the reader ...

— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett

... Count Dolgoruki, was entrusted in February, 1891, to a brother of the Tzar, Grand Duke Sergius. The grand duke, who enjoyed an unenviable reputation in the gambling circles of both capitals, was not burdened by any consciously formulated political principles. But this deficiency was made up by his steadfast loyalty to the political and religious prejudices of his environment, among which the blind hatred of Judaism occupied ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... of Miss De Stancy—who she undoubtedly was—were rather severely handled by Somerset's judgment owing to his impression of the previous night. A beauty of a sort would have been lent by the flexuous contours of the mobile parts but for that unfortunate condition the poor girl was burdened with, of having to hand on a traditional feature with which she did not ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... the saint and I walked one evening on the block of his school. My joy was dimmed by the arrival of a conceited acquaintance who burdened ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

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