loaded down
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Bearing a physically heavy weight or load: Describes something or someone carrying a substantial physical burden.
- Heavily burdened with work, cares, or responsibilities: Describes a state of being overwhelmed by non-physical burdens such as duties, worries, or stress.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The donkey was loaded down with supplies for the journey.
- She felt loaded down with guilt after the argument.
- The manager is loaded down with administrative tasks this week.
Advanced Usage
- "loaded down with": This is the standard prepositional phrase used to specify the nature of the burden.
- The shelves were loaded down with old books.
- He arrived at the meeting loaded down with paperwork.
Variants and Related Words
- Weighed down: Very similar in meaning, emphasizing the feeling of being pressed down by a weight or burden.
- She was weighed down by sorrow.
- Burdened: Often used interchangeably, though it can sound slightly more formal.
- The company is burdened with debt.
- Overburdened: Implies an excessive, often unsustainable, level of burden.
- The overburdened healthcare system is struggling to cope.
Synonyms
- Encumbered: Hindered or weighed down by something.
- Laden: Heavily loaded or weighted.
- Oppressed: Burdened mentally or physically, often by something unjust or harsh.
Related Phrases
- Bowed down: Often used figuratively to suggest being bent or subdued by troubles or responsibilities.
- He was bowed down with worry.
- Heavy-laden: A more literary synonym, directly meaning carrying a heavy load.
- Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden.
Adjective
- bearing a physically heavy weight or load
- tree limbs burdened with ice
- a heavy-laden cart
- loaded down with packages
- heavily burdened with work or cares
- bowed down with troubles
- found himself loaded down with responsibilities
- overburdened social workers
- weighed down with cares