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say it: BUR-duhnd
burdened is an adjective meaning "bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities". It carries 2 recorded senses.
bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
“she always felt burdened by the load of paper work”
bearing a physically heavy weight or load
“tree limbs burdened with ice”
“a heavy-laden cart”
“loaded down with packages”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burdened come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.