saddle

1. 1.

   put a saddle on

   “saddle the horses”

   Antonymsunsaddle

   Broaderattach
2. 2.

   load or burden; encumber

   “he saddled me with that heavy responsibility”

   Broaderburden
3. 3.

   impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

   “He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend”

   Synonymschargeburden

   Broadercommand

   Narroweroverburdenbear downoverwhelmadjure

Other forms of saddle

plural

saddles·

past tense

saddled·

present participle

saddling·

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.

Questions about saddle

What does saddle mean?

saddle means "a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saddle?

saddle has 2 syllables: sad-dle. The stress falls on "sad". In IPA it is /ˈsædəl/.

What is another word for saddle?

Close synonyms include saddleback, bicycle seat, charge, burden. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of saddle?

The recorded antonyms are unsaddle.

Is saddle a common word?

saddle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.