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Definition burden

Etymology 1

From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byr�en (�burden, load, weight; charge, duty�), from Proto-Germanic *bur�inj? (�burden�), from Proto-Germanic *bur�?? (�burden�), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (�to carry, bear�). Cognate with Scots burthine (�burden�), Middle Low German borden (�burden�), Middle High German b�rden (�burden, load�). Related to Old English byrd (�burden�), German B�rde (�burden, weight�), Danish byrde (�burden�), Swedish b�rde (�burden�), Norwegian b�r (�burden�), Icelandic byr�i (�burden�).

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

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 similar present in an organism.

Verb

burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)

1. (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
2. (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

Etymology 2

From Old French bordon. See bourdon.

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

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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