Burdened
['bə:dnd]
Definition
(adj.) bearing a physically heavy weight or load; 'tree limbs burdened with ice'; 'a heavy-laden cart'; 'loaded down with packages' .
(adj.) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; 'she always felt burdened by the load of paper work' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Burden
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Examples
- She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Well, really--considering it was you who burdened him with the responsibility! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It's a pity, wife, that you have burdened them with a morality above their condition and prospects. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Xodar was burdened with the boy, and I with the three long-swords. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They are overconscious, burdened to death with consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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