Definitions for burdened

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burdened bur·dened

Spelling: [bur-dnd]

IPA: /ˈbɜr dnd/

Burdened is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in burdened (bddeenru).

Definitions for burdened

noun

1. that which is carried; load:
2. that which is borne with difficulty; obligation; onus:
3. Nautical. the weight of a ship's cargo. the carrying capacity of a ship.
4. Mining. overburden (def 3).
5. Metallurgy. the minerals charged into a blast furnace or steelmaking furnace.
6. Accounting. overhead (def 6).

adjective

1. (of a vessel) required to yield to a vessel having the right of way. Compare privileged (def 5).

verb (used with object)

1. to load heavily.
2. to load oppressively; trouble.

Origin of burdened

burden¹ + -ed²

Examples for burdened

Further, I never wanted to have a child who could possibly be burdened with what I grew up in.

At the next moment there was the sound from without of burdened footsteps.

The conscience of to-day is burdened with a load well-nigh unbearable.

Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors.

Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic malady, dooms its sufferers to a short and burdened life.

Especially were they burdened with books on economics and political science.

He is not to be burdened for ever with the sense of his sins.

He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The Savages (2007).

I would sooner you had killed me than burdened my soul with your death.

Conservatives, on the other hand, burdened with no such principles, can let it rip.