burden

1. 1.

   weight down with a load

   Synonymsburthenweightweight down

   Antonymsunburden

   Broadercharge

   Narroweroverburdenplumbsaddle
2. 2.

   impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

   “He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend”

   Synonymschargesaddle

   Broadercommand

   Narroweroverburdenbear downoverwhelmadjure

Other forms of burden

plural

burdens·

past tense

burdenned·

present participle

burdenning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about burden

What does burden mean?

burden means "an onerous or difficult concern". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burden?

burden has 2 syllables: bur-den. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ˈbɝdən/.

What is another word for burden?

Close synonyms include load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus, load. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of burden?

The recorded antonyms are unburden.

Is burden a common word?

burden is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with burden?

2 words rhyme with burden. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.