burdened

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Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

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  1. bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.

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  1. bearing a physically heavy weight or load
  2. bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

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  • And away from this death-burdened, rotting, spoiled, sullied, exasperating, sinful earth but already looking toward the moon and Mars with plans for founding cities. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • It was the "sweetest word ever heard" by the war-burdened, crushed and sorrowing soul of the broken-hearted President of the United States. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln, by Wayne Whipple.
  • When heavily burdened, the arem could not deal with too great an incline. —  VoiceoftheGods
  • Fatima; we need to hear the words of Christ, "I have called you each by name," "Be not afraid," "Come to me, ye heavy-burdened, and I will give you rest." —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • "He seems burdened, and he seems confident," said David Guernsey, the owner of Guernsey Office Products, who hosted [a meeting between Bush and small business owners in VA]. —  Gawker
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