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burden

English

  1. 🔊 an onerous or difficult concern
    “the burden of responsibility”
  2. 🔊 the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
  3. 🔊 weight to be borne or conveyed
  4. 🔊 the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
  5. 🔊 weight down with a load
  6. 🔊 impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
    “He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 carga burden
  2. 🔊 fardo burden
  3. 🔊 lastre burden
  4. 🔊 lastrar to burden, weigh down
  5. 🔊 rémora burden, difficulty, hindrance

Similar words

load loading load encumbrance incumbrance onus effect essence core gist charge saddle burthen weight weight down spenserian stanza accommodation add adjoin affix afflict affliction agglutinate agitate