1. Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
   "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work" 
2. Bearing a physically heavy weight or load
   "tree limbs burdened with ice"
   - heavy-laden, loaded down

1. Weight down with a load
   - burthen, weight, weight down 
2. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
   - charge, saddle

See also: bowed down, encumbered, laden, loaded down, oppressed, overburdened, saddled, weighed down

Type of: charge, command, require

Antonym: unburden, unburdened

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