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burdened
CIDE DICTIONARY
burdened, adj.
bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
burdened
bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, holding, laden, loaded, maintaining, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, propping, saddled, shoring, supercharged, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, taxed, upholding, weighted, weighted downFor further exploring for "burdened" in Webster Dictionary Online