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Burden   /bˈərdən/   Listen
Burden

noun
1.
An onerous or difficult concern.  Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus.  "That's a load off my mind"
2.
Weight to be borne or conveyed.  Synonyms: load, loading.
3.
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.  Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist.
4.
The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse.
verb
(past & past part. burdened; pres. part. burdening)
1.
Weight down with a load.  Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down.  Antonym: unburden.
2.
Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.  Synonyms: charge, saddle.



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"Burden" Quotes from Famous Books



... Prelate lent An ear of fearful wonder to the King; The silver lamp a fitful lustre sent, So long that sad confession witnessing: For Roderick told of many a hidden thing, Such as are lothly uttered to the air, When Fear, Remorse, and Shame the bosom wring, And Guilt his secret burden cannot bear, And Conscience seeks in speech a ...
— Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott • Sir Walter Scott
... centre of the picture was a narrow deal table set in the middle of the room, with candles on it, and benches on each side, and on the benches fully ten children busy with books and copies. "Are these your burden?" I asked in the quaint Irish phrase. "A share of them," the man answered; and then I understood that some belonged to other neighbours, and that it was a mutual arrangement for friendliness and help. None of the children budged; there they were, drilled and disciplined at their ...
— Irish Books and Irish People • Stephen Gwynn
... trembles in anticipation of what is to come. He has been disappointed, and yet bears his burden well. ...
— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne
... A Kragan came forward and took the Spear of State, with its grisly burden, carrying it to a nearby wall and leaning it up, like a piece of stage property no longer required for this scene but needed for the next. Von Schlichten took out his geek-speaker, wiped and pouched it, and took his cigarette ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
... the spot, the burden on her back bearing heavily upon her. She scarcely dared breathe, but kept her startled eyes upon the advancing man. Her uncle was walking with his head down. As he approached the building, a terrible shiver ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White


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