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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for burdened:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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: burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
        [1913 Webster]

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