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

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

That will bring a sweeping reprieve for the nation’s 700,000 stripper wells, boosting Hildebrand’s profits while saddling society as a whole with the climate fallout. — Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 16 June 2026

In seeking to increase the number of students from certain racial groups, the current UC admissions policy is setting up unprepared students to fail, oftentimes while saddling them with many thousands of dollars in student loan debt. — Adam B. Summers, Oc Register, 11 June 2026

The author could herself be considered predatorial, having written her own children in as the books’ protagonists, saddling them with a strange kind of fame. — Literary Hub, 2 June 2026