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burden English

Meaning burden meaning

What does burden mean?
Definitions in simple English

burden Noun

— Something heavy that you carry. — A responsibility. — Something that creates worry.

burden Verb

— To weigh down. — To load.

burden

— noun (= load) an onerous or difficult concern the burden of responsibility that's a load off my mind — noun (= load) weight to be borne or conveyed — noun the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse — verb (= weight, weight down) weight down with a load — verb (= charge) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend — noun (= effect) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Synonyms burden synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as burden?

burden English » English

load weight charge encumbrance onus trouble tax responsibility pack encumber difficulty saddle refrain obligation freight cargo weigh down duty core burthen annoyance task pressure overload overhead cost loading impediment hindrance heavy responsibility gist foundation fardel bother basis baggage weight down topic strain shipment parasite overweight incumbrance impose upon heavy load hanger-on fill essence effect chorus carry

Topics burden topics

What do people use burden to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Physical actions Move something

Carry
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Beast of burden

Conjugation burden conjugation

How do you conjugate burden?

burden · verb

Examples burden examples

How do I use burden in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I feel that I am a burden to everyone, that no one will ever love me.
Tom was a burden to them.
Tom took his life because he didn't want to be a burden to anybody.
Education should not be a burden on the parents as well as on the children.
Running the store is becoming a burden to him.
That responsibility is a burden to him.
I don't want to burden you with my troubles.
I relieved him of his burden.
Her kindness has become a burden to me.
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
An elephant's burden should be borne only by an elephant.
A guest at an inopportune time is a heavy burden.
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the children of mankind to be afflicted with.
I don't burden my memory with details that can be found in the dictionary.
Tom will up sticks at his aunt's house; he thinks he may be a burden to her.
As soon as the spirit of exploitation is defeated, rearmament will be felt as an unbearable burden. There can be no real disarmament until the peoples of the world cease to exploit each other.
He was a burden to his parents.
He was not a financial burden on her.
I am afraid I'll be a burden to you.
I don't want to be any more burden to my parents.
I didn't want to be a burden.
I don't want to be a burden to you.
I don't want to burden you with my problems.
The truth can be a burden sometimes.

Movie subtitles

Well, Mrs Claus being real, it takes all the burden off Santa.
I will take on your burden.
I won't let all of this become a burden for her.
I'll admit you're the white man's burden.
Do not take upon yourselves a fault the burden of which you will forever bear in history.
It puts quite a burden on faith, though.
Don't worry, you'll be a burden on the taxpayers for many years.
However. concerning men. unfortunately. there is a side to man's nature. that has always been. a woman's burden.
Maybe if we four begin it. help to lift the burden. others'll come to help.
Perhaps it'll be a burden to have one more mouth to feed.
They rightly hate him. He steals, hates us all, is a burden. But Mother St John likes him.
For generations, they found life a burden.
Why should I? Why should I assume your burden after you spent all your money on her?
Is there nothing more to life than carrying the burden of one's past mistakes?
Besides, I don't want to be a burden on you.
That is too great a burden you put on me.
And we'll do all we can to help you bear the burden.
If you wish to confide in me, I will leave no stone unturned to lighten your burden.
Well, since your kindly government has spared me the burden of dispensing its annual appreciation to my countrymen I am blessed with more leisure.
I know how disappointed you are in him but we must bear our burden in patience.
If I may speak for my associates. I feel we must share the burden of your displeasure with Capt. Thorpe.
Mr. Sneer and I have been carrying quite a burden.
He steals, hates us all, is a burden.
Tell them we're leaving because we don't wanna be a burden.
I'll be perfectly frank: My sister finds him a burden now.
As I'm sure you realize, your staying here is a burden on us.
And you'd never be a burden to her. not to her.
Death leaves only an added burden for the living.
To put it delicately her care imposes a financial burden upon me.
She thought you might lighten that burden.
Rick, why burden Lizzie with this?
It's not my intention to burden you with my problems. But I have a lot of money here.
No, don't worry, its no burden.
If I'm getting to be a burden to you. I can always leave.
He's a real burden, don't give him any money.

News and current affairs

Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.
Nevertheless, the markets are clearly signaling growing doubt about whether Spain and Italy will be willing to bear their debt burden.
Dealing with the aftermath of the disaster will remain a financial burden even with the plant closed.
Therefore they signaled the start of a new program, immediately dubbed the Cologne Initiative, to reduce further the debt burden of the so-called Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).
Income inequality is correlated with inequalities in health, access to education, and exposure to environmental hazards, all of which burden children more than other segments of the population.
By World War II, protecting the empire had become more of a burden than an asset.
With the rise of nationalism, however, it became increasingly difficult for London to declare war on behalf of the empire, the defense of which became a heavier burden.
On top of all this, the US military, rather than being a burden, feeds the country's technological superiority by subsidizing basic research.
The scores in both London and New York for the quality and intensity of regulation, and the tax burden, have dropped.
When we are faced with conflicting choices - burden-sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. - the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide.
After all, payment imbalances always have two sides, and the burden of adjustment should not be borne only by deficit countries.
During the emergency period, fiscal retrenchment and austerity are unavoidable; but, in the longer term, the debt burden will become unsustainable without growth - and so will the European Union itself.
An old and sick man who was to die a few months later, he acted with a sense of urgency to reach a deal that would relieve his inexperienced son of the burden of struggling for the recovery of the Golan Heights.
Yes, Argentina's debts will probably be paid in full, but Argentina's taxpayers and workers will bear a heavy burden for years to come.
As for African countries, the politics and economics of globalization have stripped them of their assets and natural resources and left them with an unbearable debt burden.
The latest package to cope with Greece's insolvency offers a bond buyback to lighten the country's debt burden.
Collective burden-sharing is in the long run the only non-catastrophic way out of Europe's current crisis, but that requires a substantially greater degree of political accountability and control on a European level.
The idea that the US can grow out of its debt burden, as did Finland and Sweden following their financial crises in the 1990's, seems unrealistic.
America's departure from Mesopotamia will likewise put the burden of problem solving onto Iraqis and other regional players, leaving the US offshore to assist when and where it deems appropriate.
Until now, Congress's excessive political polarization has translated into an approach that has pushed more of the burden of adjustment onto those who are less able to bear it.
Second, he would accompany this with an explicit set of social policies - and here the potential differences are profound - that addresses the need for equitable burden-sharing.
Evsey Domar, a legendary growth economist (and one of my MIT professors) counseled that the problem of alleviating the debt burden is essentially a problem of achieving growth in national income.
There is a discussion of how much of the burden to pass on to future generations. In this war, there was no such discussion.
As a result, Europe is retreating into a narrow regional outlook - and assuming that America will carry the burden of major global issues.

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