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1. Having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal
   "saddled and spurred and ready to ride"
    
2. Subject to an imposed burden
   "left me saddled with the bill"; "found himself saddled with more responsibility than power"

1. Put a saddle on
   "saddle the horses"
    
2. Load or burden; encumber
   "he saddled me with that heavy responsibility";
   - lumber [Brit, informal]
    
3. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
   "He saddled her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend";
   - charge, burden, lumber [Brit, informal]

See also: burdened

Type of: attach, burden, burthen, command, require, weight, weight down

Antonym: offsaddle, unsaddled

Encyclopedia: Saddle, Arkansas