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n. Something that is carried.

n. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.

n. A source of great worry or stress; weight: The burden of economic sacrifice rests on the workers of the plant.

n. A responsibility or duty: The burden of organizing the campaign fell to me.

n. Nautical The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.

n. Nautical The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.

n. The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.

v. To weigh down; oppress.

v. To load or overload.

n. A principal or recurring idea; a theme: "The burden of what he said was to defend enthusiastically the conservative aristocracy” ( J.A. Froude). See Synonyms at substance.

n. Music The chorus or refrain of a composition, especially of a 15th-century carol.

n. Music A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.

n. Archaic Music The bass accompaniment to a song.

n. A heavy load.

n. A responsibility, onus.

n. A cause of worry.

n. A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad; the drone of a bagpipe.

n. Theme, core idea.

v. To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).

n. A club (weapon).

n. That which is borne or carried; a load.

n. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.

n. The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

n. The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

n. A birth.

v. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

v. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload.

v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

n. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic.

n. The drone of a bagpipe.

n. A club.

n. That which is borne or carried; a load.

n. Hence That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive; also, an incumbrance of any kind.

n. In England, a quantity of certain commodities: as, a burden of gad-steel (that is, 120 or 180 pounds).

n. The capacity of a ship; the quantity or number of tons of freight a vessel will carry: as, a ship of 600 tons burden.

n. In mining, the tops or heads of stream-work, overlying the stream of tin, and needing to be first cleansed.

n. The charge of a blast-furnace.

To load; lay a heavy load on; encumber with weight.

Hence Figuratively, to load; oppress with anything which is borne with difficulty or trouble; surcharge: as, to burden a nation with taxes; to burden the memory with details.

To lay or impose upon one, as a load, burden, or charge.

n. The act of bearing children; a birth.

n. The bass in music.

n. In music: The refrain or recurring chorus at the end of the stanzas of a ballad or song; a refrain.

n. The drone of a bagpipe. The song to which a dance is danced when there are no instruments.

n. That which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells; the main topic: as, this subject was the burden of all his talk.

n. A club.

v. weight down with a load

n. an onerous or difficult concern

n. the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

n. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

n. weight to be borne or conveyed

v. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

"He must bear his burden -- the _burden of detection and of punishment_ -- alone."

burdened    burdening    burdens   

idea    thought    significance    signification    import    meaning   

capacity    charged    oppress    to bear a burden    burden of proof   

beast of burden    burdensome   

load    birth    overload    oppress    encumber    club    refrain   

Verdun    burdon    overburden    unburden   

responsibility    consequence    misery    weight    danger    amount    hardship    difficulty    strain    advantage