Burden is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BURDEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to load heavily
• cause (someone) worry, hardship, or distress
• To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
• To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
• To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• weight down with a load
• impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
• put a burden on
• load heavily
NOUN:
• a load, typically a heavy one.
• a duty or misfortune that causes worry, hardship, or distress
• the main responsibility for achieving a specified aim or task
• the main theme or gist of a speech, book, or argument.
• the refrain or chorus of a song.
• heavy load
• That which is borne or carried; a load.
• That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
• The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
• A birth.
• 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.
• The drone of a bagpipe.
• A club.
• an onerous or difficult concern
• weight to be borne or conveyed
• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
• the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
• a ship's carrying capacity; tonnage

Words related to BURDEN

burdened12 burdener11 burdeners12 burdening13 burdenous12 burdens10 burthen12

Words that contain BURDEN

burdens10 burdened12 burdener11 faburden14 unburden11 burdeners12 burdening13 burdenous12 disburden13 faburdens15 unburdens12 burdensome15 disburdens14 overburden16 unburdened14 disburdened16 disemburden17 overburdens17 unburdening15 disburdening17 disemburdens18 overburdened19 disburdenment19 disemburdened20 overburdening20 disburdenments20 disemburdening21 overburdensome22

How to use BURDEN in a sentence

• That burden, she knew, must have fallen on another person, and it was not unpleasant to know that Riley Sinclair was the man.
• Soon, these too will go in the approaching rainy season, and then we shall fall back on the one universal beast of burden, the native carriers.
• She felt as if a burden had been lifted from her soul, now that she was able to pay Mr.
• With the help of the heroes of Erech, Gilgamesh carries the heavy burden to his mother Ninsun.
• It formed no light portion of her burden that she must preserve an appearance of composure before her servants.
• No one is now left to doubt that every burden will be cheerfully borne that may be necessary to sustain our civil institutions or guard our honor or welfare.
• Unable to enjoy society suited to his abilities and large experience of life, Paine called in low company to help him bear the burden of existence.
• Nothing can make the burden to be patiently borne, except the gradual adaptation of your soul to the new conditions.
• Friends prayed with me, and that night, as I pleaded for mercy, the burden of my sin was lifted and I was free.
• Although it would make quite a burden they intended to carry practically all of it with them.
• The masses cannot dispense with men of ability, and such men are always a burden to them.
• Casting his burden on the ground, he called upon Death to come and release him from his life of toil.
• The man of conscience, who cares for the bodies of his kind, bears almost as heavy a burden as he who cares for their souls.
• And the canoe, relieved of the bulk of its burden, floated more easily.
• Then the branch would swing up, and the snow covered it again with a cold white burden.
• His broad shoulders were beginning to bend a little under their burden of trouble and disease.
• I will not let the day come when life shall be a burden.
• Here Donald came suddenly face to face with a slight figure, bending beneath a burden, whom he instantly recognized as Ah-mo, the daughter of Pontiac.
• The rest they carry away with them, after dividing the burden among themselves, by the road which leads by the Sublician bridge to the Janiculum.
• The little mule now carried all our stock of food, and the precious burden lightened every day.
• This trade between Manila and Japon has already been usual for many years, although in ships of small burden.
• No human being is permitted to take his own life, but there are instances in which the burden of existence becomes well-nigh intolerable.

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