bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
<adj.all> she always felt burdened by the load of paper work
bearing a physically heavy weight or load
<adj.all> tree limbs burdened with ice a heavy-laden cart loaded down with packages
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.
I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened. --2 Cor. viii. 13.
2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
My burdened heart would break. --Shak.
3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.]
It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. --Coleridge.
Syn: To load; encumber; overload; oppress.
burdened \bur"dened\ adj. bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.
Burdened with excess UK production and refining capacity, most have been glad to find new customers.
Burdened by debt incurred by its investment in the Seabrook nuclear power plant, Public Service sought protection from its creditors last year under Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code.
Burdened with crowded dockets, judges are often reluctant to apply the sanctions in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure against frivolous lawsuits.