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| bur·den [ búrd'n ] |
noun (plural bur·dens) |
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1. worrying responsibility: a difficult or worrying responsibility or duty
  the burdens of parenthood
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2. something carried: a load being carried
carrying a heavy burden on his back
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3. shipping ship's capacity: the maximum weight of cargo that a ship can carry
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transitive verb (past and past participle bur·dened, present participle bur·den·ing, 3rd person present singular bur·dens) |
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1. give responsibility to somebody: to give somebody a task that is difficult to deal with or something worrying to think about
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2. give somebody load to carry: to cause somebody or something to carry a burden
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| [ Old English byrthen< Indo-European, "to bear"] |
