Synonyms of saddling

saddling

verb

present participle of saddle

as in loading

to place a weight or burden on

to the social worker it seemed as though her supervisor had once again saddled her with a truly hopeless case

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loading
• burdening
• filling
• packing
• encumbering
• weighting
• freighting
• weighing
• lumbering
• lading
• stacking
• piling
• ladening
• taxing
• clogging
• cluttering
• heaping
• hampering
• overloading
• afflicting
• overtaxing
• overburdening
• handicapping
• oppressing
• straining
• mounding
• pressing
• surcharging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unloading
• discharging
• relieving
• alleviating
• unburdening
• easing
• unlading
• lightening
• disencumbering
• disburdening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of saddling

Critics weren’t as kind, saddling the movie with a 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026

The Newmark report also knocks the draft deal for saddling Miami-Dade with too many risks of cost overruns and other risks that a private company would typically shoulder in a venture like this one. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

And many African governments prefer the Gulf model, in which investors tend to take equity in a project rather than saddling the borrowing state with debt. — Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

The nightmare scenario of running over budget and saddling local taxpayers with debt hangs over the organizing committee. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Moreno may also need to make those calls, and saddling his successor with a long-term manager seems unwise and unlikely, even by Moreno’s standards. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

The sequel ratchets up the stakes by saddling its cursed protagonist with not only a supernatural nightmare but the pressures of living under an intensely public spotlight. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026

New this year is the Paddock Building, which reworks the saddling area with new dining and social spaces overlooking the Saddling Paddock and Stakes Winner's Circle, worth a look even on a day without racing. — Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

The company was merged with Musk’s AI startup, xAI, bringing in plenty of new investors — but saddling it with billions of dollars in additional debt. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 6 Aug. 2026