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burden

Nouns

• (n) an onerous or difficult concern
  • the burden of responsibility
  • that's a load off my mind
  encumbrance, onus, incumbrance, load,
• (n) weight to be borne or conveyed load, loading,
• (n) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work gist, essence, effect, core,
• (n) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

Verbs

• (v) weight down with a load burthen, weight, weight down,
• (v) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
  • He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
  saddle, charge,

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

disburden unburden

Words of close approximity