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  • verb Present participle of burden.

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Examples

  • Amongst so excitable a people as the Arabs, this game caused quarrels and bloodshed, hence its prohibition: and the theologians, who everywhere and at all times delight in burdening human nature, have extended the command, which is rather admonitory than prohibitive, to all games of chance.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I saw a proposal the other day which seemed to result in burdening the people of this country with a high tariff, and gave a preference which would be higher than the tariff that is levied against us today, that in some way you would have conferred a benefit on British trade.

    Empire Development 1923

  • My dad was one of those farm folk you mentioned who had several siblings, then between my parents' two marriages each there were a total of 10 kids with my dad's last name burdening the tax payers in the public school system.

    How many is too Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • That definitely contrasts with the idea of burdening business owners with the cap-and-trade energy "tax" and fining them if they don't comply with Obamacare.

    monoblogue 2009

  • But I'm still not comfortable with the idea of burdening my kid with my money problems.

    Queercents 2008

  • But I'm still not comfortable with the idea of burdening my kid with my money problems.

    Queercents 2008

  • I mean, the whole society is burdening you with questions which, no matter how you respond to them, they can't help but have some kind of burdening effect on your own moral self-image.

    Oral History Interview with Andrew Young, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0080. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • What if you were diagnosed with a condition no one in your state were permited to help you with, but someone in my state was, would it be right for me to tell u not to see a physican here because you would be "burdening" my state?

    tcpalm.com Stories 2010

  • What if you were diagnosed with a condition no one in your state were permited to help you with, but someone in my state was, would it be right for me to tell u not to see a physican here because you would be "burdening" my state?

    tcpalm.com Stories 2010

  • I can't bear the idea of burdening my father with him. "

    Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

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