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Phrase(s): burden someone or something with someone or something
to bother or weigh down someone or something with someone or something. • Please don’t burden us with the bad news at this time. • I don’t want to burden the school with a troublesome child., Phrase(s): burden someone with something
to give unpleasant information to someone; to give someone some bad news. • I hate to burden you with this, but your cat ran away. • I wish I had not been burdened with all the facts.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs