0 present participle of burden --
1 to trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant: --
It is no accident that these femmes fatales frequently suffer from hysteria; in one sense burdening these women with an illness represents a male attempt to neutralise their terrible power.
The patient values discussed by family members were the sense of accomplishing life's goals, the desired involvement of family in decisions, and the desire to avoid burdening the family.
What motive did the southerners have for insisting on "burdening" (as several northerners put it) direct election with the "race rider" (as some northerners came to call it)?
This group is particularly prone to suffer a cerebral vascular accident (stroke) since the relative incidence of stroke doubles for every decade after 55 years old further burdening the system.
But this does not necessarily call on us to avoid any risk of burdening some individuals for the sake of the genetic well-being of future generations.
Additional concerns expressed to physicians have been, in decreasing frequency, losing control of bodily functions; burdening friends, family, or other caregivers; and inadequate pain control.
Where assessments were resorted to, efforts were made to avoid burdening the poor.
There are forms of research generally held to be permissible that involve burdening a patient/subject without the intention of benefiting the patient/subject.
