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What does burden mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word burden? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A heavy load.
  2. A responsibility, onus.
  3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
  4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
  5. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
  6. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
  7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
  8. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
  9. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
  2. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Noun
  1. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
  2. The drone of a bagpipe.
  3. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.
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