Word Finder - burden

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A heavy load.

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A responsibility, onus.

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A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

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

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a ship of a hundred tons burden

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

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

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A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

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A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.

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A birth.

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The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.

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To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.

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to burden a nation with taxes

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

You don't carry this burden alone.

I'm sorry I have become a burden to you.

I don't want to be a burden to you or our family anymore.

Don't ever say you're a burden again.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Like Alex, she had been overwhelmed by grief and burden of finances.

She pinched his cheek, "It must be such a burden to be so gorgeous."

This capacity he never abused so as to burden his conscience or depress his spirits.

The company should insure its workers because if uninsured workers end up in the ER, the burden falls on society, not the company.

War and reconstruction threw upon them the new burden of the black children.

It is universally used as a draught animal and beast of burden.

Don't make keeping your journal a burden.

He tried to convince himself the reason was the burden she carried with her mother's illness, but deep down, he knew that was only partially true.

He managed to draw down upon himself alone the burden of the condemnations pronounced.

When too heavily laden the camel refuses to rise, but on the march it is exceedingly patient under its burden, only yielding beneath it to die.

Their aim, he said, was nothing less than "the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace."

Dieu," of 1000 tons burden, making an epoch in its history.

Accordingly, it was henceforward governed by a proconsul (appointed by the senate) and freed from the burden of troops, while its local government was assimilated to that of Italy.

He was thus led to consider the misery of the people under the burden of taxation.

He and Jefferson were both imbued with the idea that government could be carried on upon a priori principles resting on the assumed perfectness of human nature, and the chief burden of carrying out this theory fell upon Gallatin.

In 1869 the maximum burden of the vessels which were able to ply on the upper Elbe was 250 tons; but in 1899 it was increased to Boo tons.

Great part of the burden has been borne throughout by the "City Extension Fund," realized from the utilization of the ground formerly occupied by the fortifications and glacis.

The burden of the new prophecy seems to have been a new standard of moral obligations, especially with regard to marriage, fasting and martyrdom.

John Albert's second diet (1496), after granting subsidies the burden of which fell entirely on the towns and peasantry, passed a series of statutes benefiting the nobility at the expense of the other classes.

Bezukhov got off scotfree, while Fedya had to bear the whole burden on his shoulders.

The Lord of the Rings ring bearer is the person who bears the burden of a ring of power.

He could have gone to a nursing home so he wasn't such a burden on his daughter.

I knew I'd have to talk to you about it sooner or later, but I didn't want to hold the financial burden of an unplanned pregnancy over your head like a club.

Cindy, our baby wouldn't be a burden to me even if my financial status was shaky - and it isn't.

The collection of a part of the import duties in gold has served to give the government the gold it requires for certain expenditures, but it has complicated returns and accounts and increased the burden of taxation.

In its fourth year its training as a beast of burden begins, when it is taught to kneel and to rise at a given signal, and is gradually accustomed to bear increasing loads.

The chief domestic animals are the camel, horse, ass, ox, buffalo (used both as a beast of burden and for riding), sheep with a short silky fleece, the goat and the pig, which last here reaches its southernmost limit.

He supported the king's administration in parliament, but opposed strongly the unjust measure which, on the abolition of the court of wards, placed the extra burden of taxation thus rendered necessary on the excise.

There the procession was received by the priests, who led the ass and its burden to the sanctuary.

There is an important fishery in the river, and the harbour is accessible to vessels of loo tons burden.

The administration of the postal service throughout the empire was taken over by the state, and municipal officials were relieved from the burden of maintaining the imperial posts.

Those employed in workshops, whose overseers were themselves most commonly of servile status, had probably a harder lot than domestics; and the agricultural labourers were not unfrequently chained, and treated much in the same way as beasts of burden.

The burden of maintaining it, however, proving too great for the society's means, appeal was made in vain to government for national support, and the station was closed in 1904.

This was contained implicitly in the ordonnance of 1439, which at the same time suppressed the seigniorial taille, as competing too closely with the royal taille by imposing a double burden on the taxpayer.

There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.

In 1864, in a debate on a private member's bill for extending the suffrage, he declared that the burden of proof lay on those " who would exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working-classes from the franchise."

In the cities and towns horses used as beasts of burden are now shod with iron, but in rural or mountainous, districts straw shoes are substituted, a device which enables the animals to traverse rocky or precipitous roads with safety.

Indeed, but for the unceasing simultaneous struggle with the Teutonic knights, the burden of which was heroically borne by Kiejstut, Russian historians frankly admit that Lithuania, not Muscovy, must have become the dominant power of eastern Europe.

The Ionians were naturally averse from prolonged warfare, and in the prosperity which must have followed the final rout of the Persians and the freeing of the Aegean from the pirates (a very important feature in the league's policy) a money contribution was only a trifling burden.

From an early period of his life in London the condition of the poor pressed upon him with consuming force; the enormous magnitude of the social questions involved was a burden which he could hardly bear.

The Lamb that was slain has taken upon Himself the burden of the world's history.

The imports consist of manufactured goods, beasts of burden and corn, for the island is too mountainous to grow enough corn for the inhabitants.

Under the act of 1892 this shifting of the burden of proof only occurred if the circular had been sent to any person at any university, college, school or other place of education.

Economic disturbances are caused in great measure by this system of excessive armaments; and the constant danger involved in this accumulation of war material renders the armed peace of to-day a crushing burden more and more difficult for nations to bear.

But he was crushed by the burden of his inheritance.