burden
Meaning of burden
noun
- A heavy load.
- A responsibility, onus.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
a ship of a hundred tons burden
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
- A birth.
- The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
to burden a nation with taxes
- To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- Theme, core idea.
the burden of the argument
Information about burden
- The plural form of burden is: burdens.
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Hyphenation of burden
bur-den
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- burden is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
burden synonyms
Meaning load:
load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus, loading
Meaning effect:
Meaning burthen:
Meaning charge:
Translation of burden
Anagrams of burden
Bunder, bunder, burned, unbred
Words that rhyme with burden
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