Burden (Verb)
Meaning 1
Weight down with a load.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- Excessive emotional baggage can burden her mind and affect her relationships.
- His family's financial troubles began to burden him with worry and anxiety.
- Years of sediment can burden old pipes, causing them to rupture and leak.
- Overwhelming amounts of schoolwork started to burden the students, reducing their productivity.
- Weakened limbs can burden people who are recovering from severe illnesses and injuries.
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Meaning 2
Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- She was burdened with the responsibility of managing the entire event on her own.
- They burdened him with the task of training all the new staff members.
- The government burdened the local authorities with the cost of implementing the new policy.
- The family burdened her with the duty of caring for her elderly grandmother.
- The company burdened the department with the expectation of increasing sales by 20% within a year.