Definitions
impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
Used in a sentence
“I know that this was Life,—the track Whereon with equal feet we fared; And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.”
“There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.”
“c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Weight to carry”6 letters
02“Heavy load”6 letters
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