Definition of burden

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Burden (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive..

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Unpack :: Unpack (v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Fardel :: Fardel (n.) A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden..
Unburthen :: Unburthen (v. t.) To unburden; to unload.
Fading :: Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song..
Inoppressive :: Inoppressive (a.) Not oppressive or burdensome.
Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.).
Unincumbered :: Unincumbered (a.) Not incumbered; not burdened.
Burden :: Burden (n.) A birth.
Fraught :: Fraught (n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Care :: Care (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Deonerate :: Deonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden.
Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..
Overburden :: Overburden (v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc..
Encumber :: Encumber (v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning..
Burden :: Burden (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc..
Burdensome :: Burdensome (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
Burdening :: Burdening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burde.
Disburden :: Disburden (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
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