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Webster's 1828 DictionaryBURD'ENED, pp. Loaded with weight; incumbered; oppressed. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)adj Webster's 1913 DictionaryBurden 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. I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened. --2 Cor. viii. 13. 2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. My burdened heart would break. --Shak. 3. 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. --Coleridge. Syn: To load; encumber; overload; oppress. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary1. If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work. Nicaragua was burdened with a foreign debt of $11 billion... They may be burdened by guilt and regret. ADJ: v-link ADJ with/by n 2. If you describe someone as burdened with a heavy load, you are emphasizing that it is very heavy and that they are holding it or carrying it with difficulty. Anna and Rosemary arrived burdened by bags and food baskets. ADJ: v-link ADJ with/by n [emphasis] Moby Thesaurusbearing, 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 |