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Meanings of burdened in English

Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities.

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Bearing a physically heavy weight or load.

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Examples for "heavy-laden"
Examples for "heavy-laden"
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Forest and mountain-vale heard his sighs; there he unburdened his heavy-laden heart.
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
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It is to the weary and heavy-laden that Christ has promised rest.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
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You see the river water in them; they are heavy-laden, and move slow.
Locusts and Wild Honey
4
Still others were picking flowers, searching the many heavy-laden bushes for perfect specimens.
Spells
5
It is your heavy-laden, suspicious, mal-adroit Greenes that the thieves attack.
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
Usage of burdened in English
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According to media reports, prosecutors said she felt burdened by the child.
Reuters
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Still, debt-burdened consumers have been increasing the use of their debit cards.
Reuters
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Germany is burdened by memories of state-sponsored doping in Communist East Germany.
Reuters
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Critics said the government was slow to act and burdened by bureaucracy.
Reuters
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Wagner was burdened with debts, begun in Magdeburg and increased in Königsberg.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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The author seems a little over-burdened by the tremendousness of her material.
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
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The land had been burdened with the sole support of the army.
Landholding in England
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Perhaps you've come to this book burdened, discouraged, depressed, or even traumatized.
Heaven
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The Cavendishes don't strike me as being particularly burdened with professional ethics.
Nightingale's lament
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Tables cluttered it, each burdened by great heaps of documents and folders.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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That pivotal moment -opening an envelope -is burdened by choices.
The Irish Times
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How long will it take for me to become burdened by pressure?
The Guardian
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The nation moreover, was burdened by the growth of the national debt.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleo...
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It is there the weary find rest, and the burdened soul ease.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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The driver handed two suitcases off the burdened hood of his machine.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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I can free you from the rheumatism-wracked carcass you are burdened with.
The god machine
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