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| NOUN | 1 | burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus | An onerous or difficult concern |
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| 2 | burden, load, loading | Weight to be borne or conveyed | |
| 3 | burden, effect, essence, core, gist | The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | |
| 4 | burden | The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | |
| VERB | 1 | burden, burthen, weight, weight down | Weight down with a load |
| 2 | burden, charge, saddle | Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to |
| Sounds | ber'dahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | An onerous or difficult concern. |
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| Examples | "the burden of responsibility" |
| Synonyms | load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus |
| Broader | concern, worry, headache, vexation |
| Narrower | dead weight; fardel; imposition; pill |
| Verbs | burden |
| Meaning | Weight to be borne or conveyed. |
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| Synonyms | load, loading |
| Broader | weight |
| Narrower | burthen; dead load; live load, superload; millstone; overload, overburden; overload |
| Verbs | burden |
| Meaning | The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. |
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| Synonyms | effect, essence, core, gist |
| Broader | meaning, significance, signification, import |
| Meaning | The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse. |
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| Broader | idea, thought |
| Meaning | Weight down with a load. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something with something |
| Synonyms | burthen, weight, weight down |
| Contrary | unburden, disburden |
| Broader | charge |
| Narrower | overburden; plumb; saddle |
| Nouns | burden |
| Meaning | Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something |
| Synonyms | charge, saddle |
| Broader | command, require, compel |
| Narrower | overburden; bear down; overwhelm, deluge, flood out; adjure |
| Nouns | burden |
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