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How to pronounce burden in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms burthen, weight, weight down
Type of charge
Has types saddle, overburden, plumb
Type Words
Synonyms core, effect, essence, gist
Type of significance, import, meaning, signification
Type Words
Synonyms load, loading
Type of weight
Has types overload, overburden, millstone, dead load, live load, burthen, superload
Type Words
Synonyms encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus
Type of concern, headache, worry, vexation
Has types pill, imposition, dead weight, fardel


the burden of responsibility.
Type Words
Synonyms charge, saddle
Type of command, require
Has types overburden, overwhelm, adjure, flood out, deluge, bear down
Type Words
Type of thought, idea

Examples of burden

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In a vicious circle, the higher rates themselves increased Greece's debt burden.
From the businessweek.com
Unless the Club Med countries get their yields down, it is an impossible burden.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Just meeting the troops and getting to talk to them and lightening their burden.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The Pioneers have thrived with the burden of the top ranking the last six weeks.
From the courier-journal.com
The old codgers of British colonialism regarded Maori as the white man's burden.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Whenever Bolt is interviewed these days, mention is made of the burden he bears.
From the dailymail.co.uk
That means you are handing a bigger burden to those who will pay OR nobody goes.
From the ocregister.com
It could also help relieve individuals'debt burden on fixed interest-rate loans.
From the theatlantic.com
Texas has relatively low taxes while California has an above-average tax burden.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
  • Weight down with a load
  • Charge: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
  • Load: weight to be borne or conveyed
  • Effect: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
  • The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
  • In music, the burden is an archaic term for the drone or base in some musical instruments, and the pipe or part that plays it, such as a bagpipe or pedal point in an organ. Burden also refers to a part of a song that is repeated at the end of each stanza, i.e. the chorus or refrain.
  • Watershed is the ninth full-length studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band Opeth. Released by Roadrunner Records, Watershed is the first studio album by Opeth to feature guitarist Fredrik u00C5kesson and drummer Martin Axenrot, who replaced longtime guitarist Peter Lindgren and drummer Martin Lopez...
  • The Burden is a novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Heinemann in November 12, 1956. Initially not published in the US, it was later issued as a paperback by Dell Publishing in September 1963. ...