Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down, burdened
Definition: bearing a physically heavy weight or load
Usage: tree limbs burdened with ice; a heavy-laden cart; loaded down with packages
Similar words: encumbered
Definition: loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
Usage: a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels- A.J.Liebling; a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack; an encumbered estate
Synonyms: burdened
Definition: bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
Usage: she always felt burdened by the load of paper work
Similar words: bowed down, weighed down, overburdened, loaded down
Definition: heavily burdened with work or cares
Usage: bowed down with troubles; found himself loaded down with responsibilities; overburdened social workers; weighed down with cares
Similar words: laden, oppressed
Definition: burdened psychologically or mentally
Usage: laden with grief; oppressed by a sense of failure
Similar words: saddled
Definition: subject to an imposed burden
Usage: left me saddled with the bill; found himself saddled with more responsibility than power