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Burden

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Noun

1. burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus

an onerous or difficult concern

Example Sentences:
'the burden of responsibility'
'that's a load off my mind'

2. burden, load, loading

weight to be borne or conveyed

3. burden, core, effect, essence, gist

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

4. burden

the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

Verb

5. burden, burthen, weight, weight down

weight down with a load

6. burden, charge, saddle

impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

Example Sentences:
'He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Burden

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noun
1. 
something that is carried; load
2. 
something that is exacting, oppressive, or difficult to bear
the burden of responsibility
▶ Related adjective: onerous
3. nautical
a. 
the cargo capacity of a ship
b. 
the weight of a ship's cargo
verb (transitive)
4. (sometimes foll by up)
to put or impose a burden on; load
5. 
to weigh down; oppress
the old woman was burdened with cares
noun
1. 
a line of words recurring at the end of each verse of a ballad or similar song; chorus or refrain
2. 
the principal or recurrent theme of a speech, book, etc
3.  another word for bourdon

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Burden

see synonyms of burden
noun
1. 
anything that is carried; load
2. 
anything one has to bear or put up with; heavy load, as of work, duty, responsibility, or sorrow
3. 
the carrying of loads
a beast of burden
4. 
the carrying capacity of a ship
verb transitive
5. 
to put a burden on; load; weigh down; oppress
noun
1.  Archaic
a bass accompaniment in music
2. 
a chorus or refrain of a song
3. 
the drone of a bagpipe
4. 
a repeated, central idea; theme
the burden of a speech

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Burden

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n.
1. Something that is carried.
2.
a. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
b. A source of great worry or stress; weight: The burden of economic sacrifice rests on the workers of the plant.
3. A responsibility or duty: The burden of organizing the campaign fell to me.
4. A principal or recurring idea; a theme: "The burden of what he said was to defend enthusiastically the conservative aristocracy" (J.A. Froude).
5. Music
a. A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.
b. Archaic The chorus or refrain of a composition.
c. Archaic The bass accompaniment to a song.
6. Nautical
a. The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.
b. The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.
7. The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.
tr.v. bur·dened, bur·den·ing, bur·dens
1. To cause difficulty or distress to; distress or oppress.
2. To load or overload.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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