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BURDENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bearing a physically heavy weight or load
Example:
loaded down with packages
Synonyms:
burdened; heavy-laden; loaded down
Classified under:
Similar:
encumbered (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
Example:
she always felt burdened by the load of paper work
Classified under:
Similar:
bowed down; loaded down; overburdened; weighed down (heavily burdened with work or cares)
laden; oppressed (burdened psychologically or mentally)
saddled (subject to an imposed burden)
Antonym:
unburdened (not burdened with difficulties or responsibilities)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb burden
Context examples:
At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I meant to tell my tale plainly, and make my proposals openly: and it appeared to me so absolutely rational that I should be considered free to love and be loved, I never doubted some woman might be found willing and able to understand my case and accept me, in spite of the curse with which I was burdened.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The writing of it was the culminating act of a long mental process, the drawing together of scattered threads of thought and the final generalizing upon all the data with which his mind was burdened.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
That's it! said Jo to herself, when she at length discovered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was burdened with the name of Bhaer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain,—the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man—perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
During all my first sleep, I was following the windings of an unknown road; total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; I was burdened with the charge of a little child: a very small creature, too young and feeble to walk, and which shivered in my cold arms, and wailed piteously in my ear.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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