0 present participle of burden
1 to trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant:
In relation to pension spending alterations, the relationship becomes more specific, with rising unemployment and pensioners burdening an already too narrow budgetary system.
Sceptical theism, then, may resolve the problem of evil, but only at the cost of burdening the theist with other, and perhaps equally difficult, problems.
In this way, the crown's rights could be compensated without burdening shipping with the debt.
Instead of burdening urban design with the aspiration of positive community life, this attitude gives meaning to public space that is stripped of moralistic qualifications.
Without burdening the reader with a long dissertation, there are two basic issues.
We have deliberately chosen simple, well-known ones that allow us to illustrate the basic ideas without burdening the reader with irrelevant detail.
Historical research rather than exegesis or dogmatics will break the power of traditions that are now burdening the consciences of men.
There are forms of research generally held to be permissible that involve burdening a patient/subject without the intention of benefiting the patient/subject.
