Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
That which is borne or carried; a load.
- 2noun
That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- 3noun
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
- 4noun
The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- 5noun
The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- 6noun
A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
- 7noun
A birth.
- 8transitive verb
To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
- 9transitive verb
To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
- 10transitive verb
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
The drone of a bagpipe.
- 13noun
A club.
- 14noun
weight to be borne or conveyed
- 15noun
an onerous or difficult concern
"the burden of responsibility"
"that's a load off my mind"
Synonyms
- 16noun
the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
- 17noun
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- 18verb
impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
"He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
- 19verb
weight down with a load
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