From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Burden \Bur"den\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
burdened \bur"dened\ adjective bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.
Syn: heavy-laden, laden, weighed down. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work" [ant: {unburdened}]
2: bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with packages" [syn: {heavy-laden}, {loaded down}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "burdened": bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, holding, laden, loaded, maintaining, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, propping, saddled, shoring, supercharged, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, taxed, upholding, weighted, weighted down
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