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burdening

verb
SayBUR-duhn-ingUS/ˈbɝdn̩ɪŋ/UK/ˈbɜːdn̩ɪŋ/

1 meaning of burdening

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of burden.

    The new rules are burdening small businesses with extra paperwork.

    Burdening future generations with debt has become a national worry.

    Note

    One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it builds the progressive (the rules are burdening businesses), and at the head of a phrase it works as a noun (burdening future generations is a worry). Either way it stays transitive and needs an object. Usually that object is whoever is weighed down, with the load introduced by with. Less often the object is the load itself, something heavy or objectionable laid on another.

burdening is a form of burden

burden, verb: To load someone or something with a heavy weight, duty, or problem. Full entry

Forms
burdenburdens he/she/itburdening -ing formburdened past tense, past participle
Spelling
burden → burdening: add -ing

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