burden

burden is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which is borne or carried; a load. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That which is borne or carried; a load.
2. noun. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
3. noun. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
4. noun. The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
5. noun. The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
6. noun. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
7. noun. A birth.
8. transitive verb. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
9. transitive verb. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
10. transitive verb. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
11. noun. 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; as, the burden of a prayer.
12. noun. The drone of a bagpipe.
13. noun. A club.
14. noun. weight to be borne or conveyed

    Synonyms: load, loading

15. noun. an onerous or difficult concern

    "the burden of responsibility"

    "that's a load off my mind"

    Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus

16. noun. the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
17. noun. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

    Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist

18. verb. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

    "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

    Synonyms: charge, saddle

19. verb. weight down with a load

    Synonyms: burthen, weight

Synonyms

load, loading, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus, core, effect, essence, gist, charge, saddle, burthen, weight

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in burden:

bunder, burned, unbred

Common word forms

burdens, burdened, burdener, burdening, burdenous, burdenable, burdenless

Words from these letters

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