'Burdened' definitions:
Definition of 'burdened'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work" [ant: unburdened]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Burdened'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened. --2 Cor. viii. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. [1913 Webster]
- My burdened heart would break. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.] [1913 Webster]
- It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To load; encumber; overload; oppress. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'burdened'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'burdened'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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