0 past simple and past participle of burden
1 to trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant:
Although more talented scholars are being drawn to this field of study, it remains burdened with several premises that invite reform.
One of the advantages of raising troops through the companies was that their corporate resources might ensure that the poorer inhabitants were less burdened.
This may be due to them both being new to the field and thus not being burdened by conventional narratological presuppositions.
Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration.
According to this model, the cost of diphtheria treatment was conceived as a risk that burdened neither the individual, nor the larger collective group.
The book is not burdened by excessive reference citations, is very readable and suited to a wideranging audience.
What becomes immediately clear from the figures is that housework disproportionately burdened women.
Democratisation was burdened by rampant popular distrust and cynicism about the viability, integrity and capacities of the new government.
