"burdened" in the verb sense
1. burden, burthen, weight, weight down
weight down with a load
2. charge, saddle, burden
impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
"He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
"burdened" in the adjective sense
1. burdened
bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
"she always felt burdened by the load of paper work"
2. burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down
bearing a physically heavy weight or load
"tree limbs burdened with ice"
"a heavy-laden cart"
"loaded down with packages"
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