How to pronounce “burden”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A heavy load.
• A responsibility, onus.
• A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.[1]
• A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
• (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
• (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

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