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Acquit :: Acquit (v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions..

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute..

Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.

Unpack :: Unpack (v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.

Load :: Load (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load..

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Carriage :: Carriage (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage..

Release :: Release (n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..

Care :: Care (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame..

Overburdensome :: Overburdensome (a.) Too burdensome.

Release :: Release (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty..

Task :: Task (v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Fraught :: Fraught (n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.

Relief :: Relief (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress..

Atlas :: Atlas (n.) One who sustains a great burden.

Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty..

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