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Troublesome :: Troublesome (a.) Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

Equalize :: Equalize (v. t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes..

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden..

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..

Cadge :: Cadge (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden..

Tax :: Tax (n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority..

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..

Unburden :: Unburden (v. t.) To relieve from a burden.

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

Deonerate :: Deonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden.

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;

Surcharge :: Surcharge (n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.

Tax :: Tax (n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

Exoneration :: Exoneration (n.) The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge..

Subvention :: Subvention (n.) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help..

Burden :: Burden (n.) A club.

Exempt :: Exempt (a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service..

Disencumbrance :: Disencumbrance (n.) Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome..

Exonerate :: Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

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