Crossword-Solution: BURDEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burden | n. | That which is borne or carried; a load. |
| Burden | n. | That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. |
| Burden | n. | The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden. |
| Burden | n. | The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. |
| Burden | n. | The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. |
| Burden | n. | A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. |
| Burden | n. | A birth. |
| Burden | v. t. | To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. |
| Burden | v. t. | To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. |
| Burden | v. t. | To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). |
| Burden | n. | 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. |
| Burden | n. | The drone of a bagpipe. |
| Burden | n. | A club. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BURDEN | anagram | BUNDER, BURNED, UNBRED |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BURDEN (5)
Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.
Even so, the economy grew rapidly during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but in 1986 the collapse of world oil prices and an increasingly heavy burden of debt servicing led Egypt to begin negotiations with the IMF for balance-of-payments support.
JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN—BUCK’S HEAD A wall bounded the site of Casterbridge Union-house, except along a portion of the end.
The Ass and the Lapdog A Farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of burden: among them was his favourite Ass, that was always well fed and often carried his master.
But for myself, O never let my Thebes, The city of my sires, be doomed to bear The burden of my presence while I live.
Quotes with BURDEN (3)
I have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1958–2023).