BURDENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burdened mean? 

• BURDENED (adjective)
  The adjective BURDENED has 2 senses:

1. bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

2. bearing a physically heavy weight or load

  Familiarity information: BURDENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURDENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

Context example:

she always felt burdened by the load of paper work

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bearing a physically heavy weight or load

Synonyms:

burdened; heavy-laden; loaded down

Context example:

loaded down with packages

Similar:

encumbered (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load)

 Context examples 

And twice again we came down the path burdened with skins, till I thought we had enough to roof the hut.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fears the thought of being burdened with the "soul" of anything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were heavily burdened with blanket packs which were strapped to their shoulders. Head-straps, passing across the forehead, helped support these packs.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It is love, the thought of our future, with which I am burdened.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Also there were many dogs; and these, with the exception of the part-grown puppies, were likewise burdened with camp outfit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The other gentlemen speculated with equal rashness in all sorts of frail trifles, and wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filigree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were more men and many women and children, forty souls of them, and all heavily burdened with camp equipage and outfit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Reformation may be its cure; and I could reform—I have strength yet for that—if—but where is the use of thinking of it, hampered, burdened, cursed as I am?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)