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Noun burden has 4 senses
- burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
--1 is a kind of concern, worry, headache, vexation
--1 has particulars: dead weight; fardel; imposition; pill
- load, loading, burden - weight to be borne or conveyed
--2 is a kind of weight
--2 has particulars:
- effect, essence, burden, core, gist - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
--3 is a kind of meaning, significance, signification, import
- burden - the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
--4 is a kind of idea, thought
Verb burden has 2 senses
- burden, burthen, weight, weight down - weight down with a load
--1 is one way to charge
Antonyms: unburden, disburden
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something with something
- charge, saddle, burden - impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
--2 is one way to command, require, compel
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
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