Noun burden has 4 senses
  1. burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
    --1 is a kind of concern, worry, headache, vexation
    --1 has particulars: dead weight; fardel; imposition; pill
    Derived form: verb burden2
  2. load, loading, burden - weight to be borne or conveyed
    --2 is a kind of weight
    --2 has particulars:
     burthen; dead load; live load, superload; millstone; overload, overburden; overload
    Derived form: verb burden1
  3. effect, essence, burden, core, gist - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
    --3 is a kind of meaning, significance, signification, import
  4. burden - the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
    --4 is a kind of
    idea, thought
,Verb burden has 2 senses
  1. burden, burthen, weight, weight down - weight down with a load
    --1 is one way to charge
    Antonyms: unburden, disburden
    Derived form: noun burden2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s something with something
  2. charge, saddle, burden - impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
    --2 is one way to command, require, compel
    Derived form: noun burden1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody with something
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