Burthen (Verb)
Meaning
Weight down with a load.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The heavily laden truck was struggling to climb the steep hill, its engine visibly strained as it worked to manage the excessive weight that burthened it.
- Her backpack was filled to the brim, and the additional books only served to further burthen her exhausted shoulders as she walked home from school.
- The worn-out bridge, originally built for lightly loaded vehicles, now had to burthen the massive weight of heavily laden trucks that regularly crossed it.
- As he walked through the dense forest, his knees began to ache under the weight of his pack, which seemed to burthen him with each labored step.
- Her frail frame was visibly struggling to burthen the large grocery bags she insisted on carrying up the stairs rather than taking the elevator.