Definition of burden

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Burden (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes..

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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..
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..
Sumption :: Sumpter (a.) Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule..
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment..
Release :: Release (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty..
Cart :: Cart (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty..
Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
Pesterous :: Pesterous (a.) Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome..
Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast..
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;
Fardel :: Fardel (n.) A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden..
Last :: Last (n.) The burden of a ship; a cargo.
Burdening :: Burdening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burde.
Overlade :: Overlade (v. t.) To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.
Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child..
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..
Ton :: Ton (n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden..
Strain :: Strain (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career..
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