| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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| bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| bidet | (noun) a basin for washing genitals and anal area | - |
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| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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| (noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
| (noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
| (noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| biodefence | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefense, biological defence, biological defense |
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| biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| birder | (noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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| birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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| bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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| (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
| (noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
| (noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
| bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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| bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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| (noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| blade | (noun) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge | - |
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| (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: brand, steel, sword |
| (noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: vane |
| (noun) the part of the skate that slides on the ice | - |
| (noun) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) | - |
| (noun) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade | - |
| (noun) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass | - |
| (noun) a dashing young man | - |
| (noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | Synonyms: leaf blade |
| bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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| bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| blende | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: sphalerite, zinc blende |
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| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blockade | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: encirclement |
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| (noun) prevents access or progress | - |
| (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
| (verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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| blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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| (noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
| (noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bolide | (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: fireball |
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| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| bordelaise | (noun) brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine | - |
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| bordello | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| border | (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | - |
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| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: molding, moulding |
| (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: margin, perimeter |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| borderer | (noun) an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) | - |
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| borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
| boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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| breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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| bride | (noun) a woman who has recently been married | - |
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| (noun) a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony | - |
| bridecake | (noun) a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception | Synonyms: wedding cake |
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| bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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| (noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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| (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
| (noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
| (adverb) with a side facing an object | - |
| (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
| brocade | (noun) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern | - |
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| (verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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| bromide | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| (noun) any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs | - |
| brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |