Meaning of burden in English
Verb
burdenDefinitions
1. weight down with a loadAntonyms
- 2. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
Examples
- « He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend »
Noun
burdenEtymology
Old English byrthen, of West Germanic origin; related to bearDefinitions
1. an onerous or difficult concernExamples
- « the burden of responsibility »
- « that's a load off my mind »
- 2. weight to be borne or conveyed
- 3. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- 4. the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse