burdened

IPA: bˈɝdʌnd

adjective

  • bearing a physically heavy weight or load
  • bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
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Examples of "burdened" in Sentences

  • People have this expectation of a very dark, serious kind of burdened person.
  • I think when you say burdened, I don't know how to define what the word burdened means.
  • Are we once again burdened with a reincarnation of the likes of Joseph McCarthy and his ilk?
  • By contrast, Mr. Immelt said U.S. consumers are "burdened," contributing to rising delinquency rates in GE's consumer-finance unit.
  • Casey, to keep someone from being overly burdened, that is, everyone except working men and women and their families in this country.
  • Rather than creating clear lines of authority, Congress, in the words of Obama, "burdened" the DNI with "an ambiguous statutory mandate."

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