verb
definition
To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
example
to burden a nation with taxes
definition
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Examples of burdening in a Sentence
There's nothing you can do about this and there's no point in burdening you with it.
He didn't know what that meant or even if it was a possibility that she would one day trust him enough to tell him what was burdening her.
I plan well what I will say when we are together, but dread of so burdening this dear and gentle man with the troubled future before us causes me to only hold him close and retain my silence.
If you keep your accounts error-free and use online bill paying services to keep your finances in order, you may avoid burdening yourself with excess paperwork and chores.
They were shrewd enough to guess that the royal triumph might prejudice their influence, and for the next five years they deliberately thwarted the enlightened and far-reaching projects of the king for creating a navy and increasing the revenue without burdening the estates, by a system of tolls levied on the trade of the Baltic ports (see Wladislaus Iv.), even going so far as to refuse for nine years to refund the expenses of the Muscovite War, which he had defrayed out of his privy purse.
Burdening her with something like that wasn't fair.
It was time to stop burdening Alex with every decision and make a few of her own.
A further derogation from the ideal of democratic austerity was committed by adding 80,000 per annum to the kings civil list (14th May 1877) and by burdening the state exchequer with royal household pensions amounting to 20,000 a year.
Additional facilities were granted by the act passed in 1848 for disentailing estates, and for burdening such as are entailed with the share of the cost of certain specified improvements.
Now one of the cardinal rules of politeness is to avoid burdening a stranger with the weight of ones own woes.
Poland is another case of the difficulty of managing a population which speaks a language not that of the governing majority, and Russia, in trying to solve one problem by absorbing Finland into the national system, is burdening herself with another which may work out in centuries of unrest, if not in domestic violence.