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What is the noun for burdening?

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burden
  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.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “He struggled to cope with the guilt that had become a lifelong burden on his conscience.”
      “The burden of being a role model was one he embraced with great spirit.”
      “These constant emails are becoming a burden on my ability to get on with some actual work.”
burden
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “He struggled to cope with the guilt that had become a lifelong burden on his conscience.”
      “The burden of being a role model was one he embraced with great spirit.”
      “These constant emails are becoming a burden on my ability to get on with some actual work.”
burdener
  1. One who burdens; an oppressor.
burdensomeness
  1. The state or quality of being burdensome.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Though aimed at measuring the constructs of belongingness and burdensomeness, Joiner et al.”
      “Joiner's terminology, an individual must simultaneously experience thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, which together generate suicidal ideation.”
burdeners
  1. plural of burdener
burdens
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